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Birding Mandurah, Western Australia

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When: February 2026 Weather: Warm 27C

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Having lost two precious morning birding sessions to Qantas delaying our flights, this third day was our first full day….we decided to head south to Mandurah where we had been reliably informed that we might find fairy wrens, one of our target birds….It was just over an hour’s drive from the airport hotel to the Seba’s Giant Statue car park in Mandurah.

This is the called Seba’s Song in Mandurah….the last car park and the gravel trail to the statue was where we did all the birding….as we parked and hopped out heading to the toilets, we were waylaid….quite a few little wrens were hopping all over the place!
a female fairy wren checked us out
male and female fairy wrens
magnificently coloured male fairy wren
side view
close up
female on a pedestal
in flight
hopping
contrasting colours
posing
sandpiper
silver gull
new holland honeyeater
new holland honeyeater in flight
inland thornbill
inland thornbill
singing honeyeater
singing honeyeater with the yellow marking under the eye
singing honeyeater in flight
brown honeyeater
after the fairy wrens got all the attention, it was the turn of the spotted scrub wren…charming
scrubwren
and final bird of the morning was this tiny fellow way up high, blocked by twigs and hence blurry…but could just see enough to identify it as a spotted pardalote….what a beauty!

This location was a gem; full of activity, easy to get to and lots on interesting birds. Highly recommended