Little pied cormorant and glossy ibis

To add to the list I posted recently of birds seen at the fast drying out Lake Gwelup...two more I saw last week were the little pied cormorant and the glossy ibis, both less frequent visitors.

The striated pardalote is mostly heard but not seen

(Photo copyright Wayne Eddy, reproduced with permission)

We hear the striated pardalote quite often, especially in spring, but they rarely come down from the neighbour's huge eucalypts, where they hang out. For such a tiny bird (11cm) and they have a very loud call, which you can hear via an MP3 recording on the Birds in Backyards site.

Striated pardalotes nest in tree hollows, mostly, like this one in a paperbark at Lake Gwelup. Wayne Eddy of The Friends of Lake Gwelup took this fantastic photo of the bird outside the nest hole.

Brown honeyeaters in the garden

These birds come into the bird bath most days. They are tiny little things, about 12mm from head to tail and have a beautiful song.