gemfyre | Oh man my legs itch

They also have teeny black spots on them which is a worry. Today Ricki & I had a day off and went to the Gravel Pit and Taylor’s Lagoon via Roebuck Plains, then checked out Wader Beach to hunt for Redshank (which we unfortunately dipped on).

It’s been ages since I did some proper birding, and I was sick of getting a species list consisting of 12 or so birds. Today I got a tidy 89 species, that’s much more like it. But walking through all that grass at Gravel Pit and Taylor’s was hell.

Australian Pratincole
Australian White Ibis
Australian Wood Duck
Bar-Shouldered Dove
Bar-Tailed Godwit
Black Kite
Black Swan
Black-Breasted Buzzard
Black-Faced Cuckoo-Shrike
Black-Faced Woodswallow
Black-Fronted Dotterel
Black-Tailed Godwit
Black-Tailed Treecreeper
Black-Winged Stilt
Broad-Billed Sandpiper
Brolga
Brown Falcon
Brown Honeyeater
Brown Songlark
Budgerigar
Caspian Tern
Cockatiel
Common Greenshank
Crested Pigeon
Curlew Sandpiper
Diamond Dove
Double-Barred Finch
Eastern Curlew
Great Bowerbird
Great Egret
Great Knot
Greater Sand Plover
Grey Shrike-Thrush
Grey Teal
Grey-Crowned Babbler
Grey-Tailed Tattler
Gull-Billed Tern
Hardhead
Jacky Winter
Lesser Crested Tern
Lesser Sand Plover
Little Crow
Little Egret
Little Friarbird
Long-Tailed Finch
Magpie
Magpie Lark
Marsh Sandpiper
Masked Lapwing
Mistletoebird
Nankeen Kestrel
Pacific Black Duck
Paperbark Flycatcher
Peaceful Dove
Pied Butcherbird
Pied Cormorant
Pied Oystercatcher
Pink-Eared Duck
Rainbow Bee-Eater
Red Knot
Red-Backed Fairy-Wren
Red-Backed Kingfisher
Red-Browed Pardalote
Red-Capped Plover
Red-Collared Lorikeet
Red-Necked Avocet
Red-Necked Stint
Red-Winged Parrot
Richard's Pipit
Ruddy Turnstone
Rufous Songlark
Rufous Whistler
Silver Gull
Singing Bushlark
Singing Honeyeater
Striated Pardalote
Terek Sandpiper
Torresian Crow
Tree Martin
Varied Sitella
Wedge-Tailed Eagle
Whimbrel
Whistling Kite
White-Bellied Sea-Eagle
White-Breasted Woodswallow
White-Winged Triller
Willie Wagtail
Yellow-Tinted Honeyeater
Zebra Finch