Mine are:
- Mt Tomah: Easily my #1 favourite -- I have always left this place with beautiful shots and a big smile on my face. If you like Superb Fairy Wrens, Mt Tomah is a place where there are lots and they are not camera shy. Best place to see them there is at the formal garden at the top, or around the car park. It is also a reliable place to see satin bowerbirds: the females always gather around the picnic area at the top around lunch time. The male is somewhere around there too, but he's a little more camera shy. Overall, the variety of birds here is fantastic and you can get remarkably close to many of them.
- Mt Wilson, which is a bit further out than Mt Tomah but accessible via on the same road. There are lots of gardens here where one can see great birds, especially in spring time. The Nooroo garden is a great place for shooting eastern spinebills and scrub wrens. Windyridge is a great place to get close to fairy wrens and red-browed firetails. All of the gardens tend to get great birds. Autumn is also a great time to go.
- Bicentennial park and the surrounding wetlands. The Bird Hide at the park is an excellent place for getting close to small birds and also water birds. There is no better place to shoot silvereyes that I am aware of, especially around July when the wattles are blooming and they are doing their acrobatic maneuvers on the plants. There also many great things to see in the nearby Narrawang wetlands. My favourite time to go there is in spring when the bottlebrushes are blooming, and there are all sorts of honeyeaters that one can get close to. In these locations, one should walk off the main path to avoid people scaring away your beautiful birds, especially bikers (the younger ones love to do that). They are also a great place for wrens, spoonbills, and egrets.
- Centennial Park. If you can get away from the crowds, there are a lot of nice bird shooting opportunities. New holland honeyeaters and other small birds love to feed on the flowering plants at the gardens. Also, great place for black swans, water birds, and a variety of other birds. I know some people have found tawny frogmouths here, but they always manage to elude me.
- Royal Botanic Gardens. A great place for cockatoos and flying foxes. Also, one can see the normally shy banded rail up close. Lots of other birds easy to get close to.
