Western wattlebird at Stokes Inlet. Photo: Kim Norris.
Esperance Bird Observers Group members travelled to Stokes Inlet, Bebweberup, for their monthly excursion on Sunday.
They parked along Stokes Inlet Road for a short walk along the firebreak, before travelling to the barbecue sheds for morning tea and a two-hour bush walk.
Collating results over a late lunch the group counted 26 bird species they had seen or heard.
Vice-president Pam Norris supplied this list: emu, willie wagtail, great cormorant, western wattle bird, nankeen kestrel, New Holland honey eater, Australian raven, magpie, Australasian pipit, restless flycatcher, welcome swallow, silver eye, pelican, black faced cuckoo shrike, grey fantail, fantail cuckoo, western golden whistlers, grey currawong, white bellied sea eagle, silver gull, white browed scrub wren, Gilbert’s honeyeater, grey butcher bird, red wattle bird, hoary-headed grebe and great pied cormorant.
