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Birds seen from my office window

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List of birds seen from my first floor office window in Applecross, Perth, WA (in order seen/recorded).

  1. Silver Gull – regular fly-bys throughout the day
  2. Singing Honeyeater
  3. Rainbow Lorikeet – frequent
  4. Galah
  5. Australian Magpie – nesting nearby
  6. Australian Pelican – seen circling high
  7. Australian Raven – nesting nearby
  8. Red-tailed Black-cockatoo
  9. Red Wattlebird
  10. Laughing Dove
  11. Australian White Ibis
  12. Rock Dove
  13. Spotted Dove
  14. Willie Wagtail – road verge
  15. Brown Honeyeater
  16. Magpie-lark
  17. Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
  18. Eastern Osprey
  19. New Holland Honeyeater
  20. Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo
  21. Laughing Kookaburra

OWC Data Doubler

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I have just installed an OWC Data Doubler kit in my 13″ MacBook Pro (the late 2011 model).  It is a bracket that replaces the optical drive that ships with the MacBook Pro and allows you to install a second 2.5″ hard disk or SSD.  In my case I have installed a 480GB SSD (KINGSTON SV300S37A480G Media) in the location of the original disk and moved the original disk to the Data Doubler.  The boot disk is now the SSD; I intend to use the old disk as an internal backup drive.

The instructions are very good, all of the tools required are included and the kit itself is of a very high quality.  I highly recommend the Data Doubler kit (and the idea of installing an SSD into a 4 year old MacBook Pro to give it a new lease on life).

2015 Birding Targets

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Here is a list of the birds I am looking for in 2015 (in no particular order):

  • Terek Sandpiper (Xenus cinereus);
  • Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii);
  • Black-eared Cuckoo (Chalcites osculans);
  • Gilbert’s Whistler (Pachycephala inornata);
  • Malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata);
  • Inland Dotterel (Charadrius australis);
  • Lesser Sand Plover (Charadrius mongolus);
  • Painted Button-quail (Turnix varius);
  • Southern Scrub-robin (Drymodes brunneopygia);
  • Sanderling (Calidris alba).
Edit:  Added Sanderling…

Lesmurdie Falls Birding

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My local birding patch is Lesmurdie Falls – below is my current list.  There are a few obvious holes (raptors in particular) so hopefully this will be added to in the near future.

  1. Australian Wood Duck (Chenonetta jubata)
  2. Common Bronzewing (Phaps chalcoptera)
  3. Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides)
  4. Galah (Eolophus roseicapillus)
  5. Australian Ringneck (Barnardius zonarius)
  6. Red-capped Parrot (Purpureicephalus spurius)
  7. Fan-tailed Cuckoo (Cacomantis flabelliformis)
  8. Splendid Fairy-wren (Malurus splendens)
  9. White-browed Scrubwren (Sericornis frontalis)
  10. Yellow-rumped Thornbill (Acanthiza chrysorrhoa)
  11. Brown Honeyeater (Lichmera indistincta)
  12. New Holland Honeyeater (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae)
  13. White-cheeked Honeyeater (Phylidonyris niger)
  14. Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)
  15. Rufous Whistler (Pachycephala rufiventris)
  16. Grey Shrike-thrush (Colluricincla harmonica)
  17. Black-faced Woodswallow (Artamus cinereus)
  18. Australian Magpie (Cracticus tibicen)
  19. Grey Fantail (Rhipidura albiscapa)
  20. Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)
  21. Australian Raven (Corvus coronoides)
  22. White-breasted Robin (Eopsaltria georgiana)
  23. Silvereye (Zosterops lateralis)
  24. Mistletoebird (Dicaeum hirundinaceum)
  25. Red-eared Firetail (Stagonopleura oculata)