Here are a few recent (and one not-so-recent) sightings:

• Eastern Cattle Egret (finally at Lake Richmond, I have been looking for one of these for a while);
• Broad-billed Sandpiper (in a flock of Red-necked Stint at Nairns);
• Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (a member of the long-established feral posse at Lake McLarty, not a very satisfying tick but a tick nonetheless);
• Red Knot at Nairns (have seen these before but this was a fantastic view alongside Great Knot);
• Gull-billed Tern at Karratha (seen a few years back but finally ID’d by photo).

The first four birds were seen on a Lake McLarty/Nairns area trip with Alan Collins and John Graff.  This takes my life list (Western Australia & Australia) to 256 species.  A nice, neat number for a nerd like me…