First bird in the garden on the New Year life list for 2024 - a Carolina Wren shouting at the world just before dawn ... "It's a new year. Get up and out the kettle on!"

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After a week of the Big Aussie Bird Count, which this year I did entirely from home (mostly due to COVID), I managed to complete 21 twenty-minute surveys, with a total of 785 individual birds counted and 46 species seen from my house!

Here's the list in alphabetical order:

Australian Magpie
Australian Raven
Australian White Ibis
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
Black-shouldered Kite
Blue-faced Honeyeater
Collared Sparrowhawk
Common Blackbird
Common Bronzewing
Common Myna
Crested Pigeon
Crimson Rosella
Dusky Woodswallow
Eastern Rosella
Galah
Grey Fantail
Grey Shrike-thrush
House Sparrow
Little Raven
Long-billed Corella
Masked Lapwing
Musk Lorikeet
New Holland Honeyeater
Pied Currawong
Rainbow Lorikeet
Red Wattlebird
Red-browed Finch
Rock Dove
Rufous Whistler
Silvereye
Spotted Dove
Spotted Pardalote
Straw-necked Ibis
Striated Pardalote
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Superb Fairy-wren
Tree Martin
Wedge-tailed Eagle
Welcome Swallow
Whistling Kite
White-faced Heron
Yellow Thornbill
Yellow-billed Spoonbill
Yellow-faced Honeyteater
Yellow-rumped Thornbill
Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo

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