Australia Part 1 - Perth and Adelaide

More urbanish birding.....
Kings Park in Perth provided us with our first sightings, we went there for the views, but of course our birding heads took over;
Our first Rainbow Lorikeet

 and Australian Magpie

of which we were to see many.
We went on an excursion down to Fremantle, this included a boat trip back to Perth. In Fremantle we managed to get good sightings of Red Wattlebird, another bird we were to see a lot of around the lower end of Oz.

another common bird around the cities was the
Silver Gull

in Fremantle we also saw our first
Australian Raven

and Willy Wagtail (no pictures of that here, perhaps in a later post!)

Our boat trip back to Perth along the Swan River, was largely disappointing from a birds viewpoint, although we enjoyed the trip immensely we did see some Cormorant though,
Australian Pied Cormorant

The following day we took a trip from Perth to see the Pinnacles,

an amazing place, a bit like being on another planet I would imagine. Not much bird life about, but we did add a
Singing Honeyeater

to our list. On the way to the Pinnacles we stopped at New Norcia, this is a very small town, hosting a large monastery, in fact only people who work for the monastery are allowed to live there. Anyway it did add a few birding opportunities. Believe it or not this is a

 Yellow-rumped Thornbill,

 and a Tree Martin,

 Magpie Lark,

 and an Australian Ringneck

other birds seen here were Western Corella, Galah and Welcome Swallow.

So on to Adelaide......
We took an afternoon out here to walk from our hotel along the Karrawirra Pirra (river) to the Botanical Gardens, this was brilliant, we just took our time, stopped for coffees as we do and enjoyed the Adelaide birdlife.
Noisy Miner,

 Cormorant,

 Dusky Moorhen,

 Crested Pigeon,

 Purple Swamphen,

 Magpie Lark,

 Australian Magpie,

 White-faced Heron,

 Australian Wood Duck (Maned Duck),

 A fantastic colony of Grey-headed Flying Fox,

Australian White Ibis,

 more Australian Wood Duck,

 Hardhead,

 Chestnut Teal,

 Rainbow Lorikeet,

 Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, (being mobbed by Noisy Miners)

 Galah,

 Eastern Rosella,

 Rainbow Lorikeet, (again!)

 Masked Lapwing,

 Black Swan,

 and Australasian Grebe.

Other birds seen in Adelaide, but no photos unfortunatley!
Coot, Silver Gull, Feral Pigeon, Coconut Lorikeet, Australian Raven and Mallard.