Relatively new to Australia from the UK and rekindling a birding interest shelved for the past 10 years. Keeping a list for the first time. Lifers in bold.
3rd January
Drive from Melbourne to Healesville and back again:
1) Common Myna
2) House Sparrow
3) Eurasian Starling
4) Rock Dove
5) Spotted Turtle Dove
6) Crimson Rosella
7) Australian King Parrot
8) Sulphur Crested Cockatoo
9) Laughing Kookaburra
10) Superb Fairy Wren
11) Australian Magpie
12) Magpielark
13) Blackbird
14) Brown Thornbill
15) Red Wattlebird
16) Brush Wattlebird
17) Common Bronzewing
18) Willie Wagtail
19) Galah
20) Silver Gull
21) Little Raven
22) Rainbow Lorikeet
23) Noisy Miner
24) Welcome Swallow
4th January
Out for a run around the Botanical Gardens, Melbourne:
25) Little Pied Cormorant
7th January
9 holes of evening golf at Growling Frog, Donnybrook, Vic:
26) Pacific Black Duck
27) Australian Wood Duck
28) Black Faced Cuckoo-Shrike
29) White Faced Heron
30) Eastern Rosella
31) Red Rumped Parrot
32) Long-Billed Corella
33) Nankeen Kestrel
34) Brown Falcon
35) Crested Pigeon
36) Masked Lapwing
37) Grey Shrike-Thrush
38) Straw-Necked Ibis
39) Australian White Ibis
3rd January
Drive from Melbourne to Healesville and back again:
1) Common Myna
2) House Sparrow
3) Eurasian Starling
4) Rock Dove
5) Spotted Turtle Dove
6) Crimson Rosella
7) Australian King Parrot
8) Sulphur Crested Cockatoo
9) Laughing Kookaburra
10) Superb Fairy Wren
11) Australian Magpie
12) Magpielark
13) Blackbird
14) Brown Thornbill
15) Red Wattlebird
16) Brush Wattlebird
17) Common Bronzewing
18) Willie Wagtail
19) Galah
20) Silver Gull
21) Little Raven
22) Rainbow Lorikeet
23) Noisy Miner
24) Welcome Swallow
4th January
Out for a run around the Botanical Gardens, Melbourne:
25) Little Pied Cormorant
7th January
9 holes of evening golf at Growling Frog, Donnybrook, Vic:
26) Pacific Black Duck
27) Australian Wood Duck
28) Black Faced Cuckoo-Shrike
29) White Faced Heron
30) Eastern Rosella
31) Red Rumped Parrot
32) Long-Billed Corella
33) Nankeen Kestrel
34) Brown Falcon
35) Crested Pigeon
36) Masked Lapwing
37) Grey Shrike-Thrush
38) Straw-Necked Ibis
39) Australian White Ibis
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