30/03/07 Trip from 6 August - 1 December 2006 highlights; Northern Shrike-tit, Painted Snipe (2), Black-backed Bittern, Yellow Chat (3 subspecies), Blue-faced Finch (two groups), Flock Pigeon (1), Red Goshawk (4), Noisy Scrubbird, Western Whipbird, Western Bristlebird, Nullabor Quail-thrush, Grey, Eyrean, Thick-billed, Short-tailed, Kalkadoon and Striated Grasswren, Chestnut-breasted White-face, Little Ringed Plover, Black-breasted Button-quail, Sooty & Powerfull Owl, Orange-bellied Parrot, tasman masked owl, Morepork (tasmanian Boobook), and Black-eared Miner.

No visit to WA this year knocked it down a tad, and very few seabirds. Grey-headed Lapwing my only Oz + in 2006.

31/12/06. Highlights included Blue-faced Parrot-finch, Grass Owl, Painted Finch, Zitting Cisticola, Scrubtit, Forty-spotted Pardalote, Red-necked Phalarope, Grey-headed Lapwing, Slaty-backed Thornbill, Hudsonian Godwit, Striated Grasswren, Ground Parrot, Southern Cassowary, Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush, Little Kingfisher, Spinifex Pigeon, etc etc. Happy New Year!

Chestnut-breasted Quailthrush, Northern Royal Albatross, Black-eared Cuckoo, Painted Honeyeaters, Halls Babbler, Orange Chat, Rufous Scrub-bird, Sooty Owl, Beautiful Firetail, Eastern Bristlebird

An interesting year. Did short trips from Canberra for the first six months then bird surveys across northern Australia for the second half. Highlights were definitely Rainbow Pitta at 5m, both Chestnut and White-quilled Rock-Pigeons and Swinhoe's Snipe in the hand

(16 Nov) Highlights include: royal albatross, spotted harrier, Bourke's parrot, paradise riflebird, scrub tit, bush-hen and ground parrot.

Darwin, Canberra, but that might be it for this year until Christmas--C'mon Dave!

29/8/06 4 Albatrosses + Superb Lyrebird