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[Nov 15^^ 1953] SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER, BLACK-FRONTED DOTTERELL, 
SPUR-WINGED PLOVER, CHATS, GOLDFINCHES and a 
BLACK-BIRD. On the way back to the car 
we went by a reedy swamp where we 
heard the LITTLE GRASS-BIRD, and saw a 
WHITE-NECKED HERON, LITTLE BLACK CORMORANT 
and SKYLARK. 
After afternoon tea I left the family 
and did a walk of nearly two miles in 
a circle to the east, almost reaching the shore 
of the other, larger lake. At first there were 
many dead, morbid. Red Gums, on which 
was a STRIATED PARDALOTE and a pair of 
RED-BACKED PARROT - my second sighting for the 
district. In a very large, shallow 
swamp in which was growing short grass 
were two YELLOW-BILLED SPOONBILL and three 
STILTS, as well as a fair-sized flock of 
Sandpiper. There were too many WHITE- 
FACED HERONS. I saw a hawk - Goshawk 
or Peregrine - flying low over the swamp with 
a large, unidentified prey in its talons. There 
were, in the surrounding dry grass, many PIPITS, 
