Birds seen from my office window

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

Update

Life is busy.
That is all.

Bengalese Finch (Society Finch)

One of my Bengalese Finches in my aviary.  Lovely little finches.

Red-eared Firetail at Lesmurdie Falls

Sunrise in the Yilgarn

OWC Data Doubler

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

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...

Lifers per Year

2012 included a trip to SE Queensland with Martin Cake.