Over the last week or so I have added three new birds to my life-list:

• Rufous Treecreeper (Climacteris rufa) – seen on the Wungong/Bungendore BirdsWA walk – thanks to those who found it;
• Western Thornbill (Acanthiza inornata) – I have seen these before but I can now reliably identify them thanks to John Graff;
• Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo (Chalcites basalis) – I found a single bird on the beach at Karratha – it was either exhausted or hiding from birds of prey as it was content to let me approach quite close.

This take the life list to 177 – my aim is to pass 200 by the end of the year.