Meet at 8:30am (note earlier time) on at the car park at the end of London Bridge Rd Googong.. The basic walk will be 3km return but there is a possibility of returning over the Bridge which might add another 0.5km. It may be warm and there isn’t much shade so carry water.
London Bridge Homestead
Sunday 21 August 00:00
John Bundock
Post event report
On a cool morning, eleven hardy birders met at London Bridge carpark. On the way in, while opening the gate on the road, we’d heard a Fan-tailed Cuckoo. After checking the dams near the carpark we proceeded over London Bridge and walked a short distance downstream. We then walked upstream to the London Bridge homestead, crossed Burra Creek and strolled back to the carpark with 43 species sighted on this section of the walk. Highlights were a Southern Whiteface and a Brown Treecreeper, both at the homestead, and 2 wombats. Ten of us then drove from London Bridge carpark to Tin Hut Dam where we spotted 4 more of Googong’s diurnal wombats and 19 bird species, including a Musk Duck on the dam and a flock of over 50 Australian Magpies flying over the river. A very good morning’s birding for a walk at this time of the year.