New to the list

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.