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[22""^ November 53] birds seen giving a good idea of the 
changing nature of the country. 
We had lunch at Rosedale, just 
over the river on the left in the recently 
flooded caravan-park. Opposite us 
was a swamp in which we saw WHITE 
IBIS • YELLOW-BILLED SPOONBILL • EASTERN SWAMP- 
HEN • DUSKY MOORHEN • SPUR-WINGED PLOVER and 
heard the LITTLE GRASS BIRD. Just as we 
finished lunch Joan saw a snake in 
the grass just beside her - 3-4' [feet] away ! ! ! 
In the afternoon we got into the 
third stage of that day's journey - the 
long straight stretches of road in open 
forest, crossing the steeply cut rivers - with 
the mountains away to the right. Shortly 
after Rosedale we came to a large, shallow 
lake, on or around which were SWAN • 
MOUNTAIN DUCK • GREY TEAL • WHITE-HEADED 
STILT • HOARY-HEADED GREBE • RED-CAPPED 
DOTTERELL. Then in the open timber, in 
which there was much swampy land - 
GOSHAWK • LITTLE GREBE • COOT • WHITE-NECKED 
