Pitt Town Lagoon - A Mini Road Trip with The Sintic

Early Saturday morning I fired up the Magna and headed towards the north-west end of Sydney together with a very upbeat Sintic. Not only did my companion manage to direct us through the streets of Sydney so fast and smooth that anyone wanting to better the performance will need the tightest-tight full-suit Arena, but before we passed the Blacktown exit, we had talked about Pink-eared Ducks, solved the economical meltdown and briefly dealt with most other things in between :-)


Always wondered why it was called the Fan-tailed C. :-)

Pitt Town Lagoon has received a bit of interest lately, hordes of Pink-eared Ducks have, according to the internet, chosen the lagoon as their winter hideout, with the added excitement of (minimum) one Australasian Bittern reported to have been flushed multiple times in combo with some excellent Sydney winter weather we were up for a treat :-)

Great spot, lots of excellent wildlife - unfortunately the Bittern was tired of being flushed and the Pink-eared Ducks were either taking a little rest from all excitement in a neighboring pond or they had collectively decided to hide their pink bits. However, there was still quite a bit of stuff going on when it comes to man and beast,

Paul found a horse dressed in matching blue - probably the color of this winter! And we meet a few celebrity birders, including the Shasha and Amoore duo, good to know that they did not find the Bittern either ;-) Had a little chat and decided to move on. We all went to a neighboring national park for a little walk, the newly-weds had to leave early though, something about a trip to Brazil ..? - guess young couples nowadays are not shy of taking a second honeymoon :-)

The ticking machine Sintic and yours truly had bigger(?) plans though, we were going to visit the Bushell's Lagoon, just around the corner ...