Western Australia, Days Four to Six

Spent the last few days in between rain and family events getting in a few snippets of birding. I popped into Coodanup Reserve and Erskine Lakes and also did a bit more at Black Lake and around Mitch and Arthur's. Updated trip report HERE. Tomorrow I head off South to do some focused birding. 

A few photo highlights below.

Nankeen Night Heron at Erskine Lakes 

Magpie Lark 

Australasian Swamphen 

Little Corella 

Striated Pardalotes

Australasian Grebe 

Crested Terns 

Galah 

Rufous Whistler 

Singing Honeyeater 

New Holland Honeyeater

Western Gerygone 

Western Australia, Days One to Three

Currently staying at Holly's family homestead on the shore of Black Lake, Mandurah. Mitch and Arthur have a sixteen acre property that overlooks the lake and is adjacent to a CaLM (Conservation Land Management Area) so it's a pretty good bit of habitat, which is lucky as due to family commitments I've only been birding in this area. It's been a great little intro. Live Ebird trip report HERE. 

A few photo highlights below of a few common WA species. 

Galah

Scarlet Robin

Australian Ringneck 

Crested Pigeon

Laughing Kookaburra

Whistling Kite

Common Bronzewing

Western Whistler (i think)

Silvereye

Spotted Scrubwren

Western Wattlebird 

Australian Magpie

Splendid Fairywren (male non-breeding)

Grey Butcherbird

Western Gerygone

Weebill

Australian Wood Duck 

Western Grey Kangaroo (aboves) 

Mitch and Arthur's 

Singapore stop over

Spent the last two nights in Singapore en route to Perth, Western Australia. Yesterday we spent the day at the Singapore Botanical Gardens, Ebird list HERE and today we spent the day at the Gardens by the Bay, Ebird list HERE. As it was a family city break the birding was casual around family activities and both of these sites are top sites in the city to combine both.

A few photo highlights below. 

Oriental Pied Hornbill 

Zebra Dove 

Spotted Dove 

White-breasted Waterhen 

Javan Myna 

Malaysian Pied-Fantail 

House Crow

Oriental Magpie Robin 

Javan Myna in the lunch stop kitchen 

Red Junglefowl (above and below)

Asian Water Monitor (above) and Clouded Monitor, I think (below) 

The botanical gardens had some good little bits of habitat including wetlands (above) and a fragment of original lowland rainforest (below- with Jacob visiting his first rainforest) 

The Gardens by the Bay - the world famous giant trees are here along with a series of biodomes and little bits of habitat

The Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore- got to be the best airport in the world. Next stop- Oz.