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[22"^ November 53] HERON • LITTLE BLACK CORMORANT • YELLOW-TAILED 
THORNBILL • and SWAMP HAWK. 
And so, from Bairnsdale through 
more undulating and forested country to 
Lakes Entrance where we immediately 
booked in at the Club Hotel at 4.30. Settled in 
we went for a stroll, eastwards through 
the township where by far the most 
interesting ornithological observation was 
the Silver Gulls 'puddling' in the shallow 
water and bringing up evidently plenty 
of food in the mud for they ate vigorously. 
In the harbour were PACIFIC GULLS • CRESTED 
TERNS • a pair of CASPIAN TERNS • a FAIRY 
TERN and a PIED OYSTERCATCHER. We 
crossed by footbridge to the sea-wall 
of sand dune and sat watching in the 
grey evening the incredibly calm and 
still waters of the ocean, and the antics 
of the gulls fighting for a morsel on the 
sand. As we turned to go a pair 
of PEREGRINES flew swiftly over head. We 
were in bed very early after tea - 7.30! 
