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20 March 2004

Trip to Western Australia

Highlights

  • Camping at Rottnest Island and exploring the island on bicycles
  • First experience of geo caching - depositing Macavity the Cat
  • Shannon National Park - camping in a cosy hut, forest walks, buying supplies from a little shop
  • Lunch at Margarrette's River and a great river walk
  • Seeing a buff-banded rail in the Mangrove Swamps
  • Towering trees at Shannon National Park (Australia)
  • The views from King's Park
  • Seeing my first Kookaboro
  • Seeing my first Kangaroo
  • 48 new bird species including beautiful parakeets










New birds seen


King's Park - Perth
  • Australian Wood duck
  • Magpie-lark
  • Rainbow Lorikeet
  • Yellow Wattlebird


Mangrove Park
  • Grey fantail
  • White-faced heron
  • New Holland Honeyeater
  • Australian White ibis
  • Buff-banded rail
  • Willie wagtail
  • Silvereye


Rotnest Island
  • Rainbow bee-eater
  • Spotted Turtle Dove
  • Pacific Black duck
  • Silver gull
  • Singing Honeyeater
  • Sacred Kingfisher
  • Common pheasant
  • Banded lapwing
  • Banded Stilt
  • Redcapped plover
  • Australian raven
  • Redcapped Robin
  • Australian shelduck
  • Welcome swallow
  • Grey teal
  • Bridled tern
  • Crested tern


Shannon Forest Reserve
  • Whitebrowed babbler
  • Long billed black cockatoo
  • Grey Currawong
  • Restless flycatcher
  • Common bronzewing
  • Crested shrike-tit
  • Scarlet Robin
  • Yellow rumped thornbill
  • Grey shrike-thrush
  • Dusky Woodswallow
  • Australian ringneck


Other
  • Australian magpie
  • Western Rosella
  • Little Pied Cormorant
  • Australasian Grebe
  • Strawnecked Ibis
  • Laughing Kookaburra
  • Australina pelican
  • Black Swan
  • Grey butcherbird

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