Broome Roadtrip 10 _ Albany

Albany is a nice town with excellent facilities and lots of different habitats within a short distance of the town. The main function of Lake Seppings appears to be to water the golf course but there is a heap of birds present and an excellent walking/bike riding track around the perimeter which goes through various habitats. The birding was just great.

Australian White Ibis Threskiornis molucca

Blue-billed Duck Oxyura australis

Musk Duck Biziura lobata

Pacific Black Duck Anas superciliosa

New Holland Honeyeater  Phylidonyris novaehollandiae

Red-eared Firetail Stagonopleura oculata

Red-winged Fairy-wren Malurus elegans

Splendid Fairy-wren Malurussplendens

Varied Sitella "Black-capped Sitella"
Daphoenositta chrysoptera pileata

White-browed Scrubwren "Spotted Scrubwren"
Sericornis frontalis maculatus -- note the spots on the chest!

Welcome Swallow  Hirundo neoxena

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After the Baudins came lunchtime in Narrogin. I had a good look at some Western Magpies, the race dorsalis of our Australian Magpie, Cracticus tibicen. The Victorian race, tyrannica, is the White-Backed Magpie.

Black-backed Magpie, Cracticus tibicen dorsalis.
 Youngster on left, dad on right 

This is mum.
Black back feathers, edged in white, forming a contrasting scalloped pattern.
[Pizzey & Knight]

Close up of same.

Then it was on to the Dryandra Woodlands where I camped for a night.

Rufous Treecreeper Climacteris rufus

Spotted Scrubwren, Sericornis frontalis maculatus
The western race of the White-browed Scrubwren.

Western Gerygone Gerygone fusca

Western Spinebill Acanthorhynchus superciliosus

Brown-headed Honeyeater

Grey Currawong Strepera versicolor plumbea

Inland Thornbill Acanthiza apicalis

I had been wanting to tick the Purple-crowned Lorikeet for a long while now and Dryandra gave me the opportunity to do so. They are not the slowest flyers around so to get some on the ground was providential.

Next stop -- Stirling Range.