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[23'"^ Nov 1953] know. We arrived and booked in at 
4.30 at the Malacoota Hotel. We took 
the car a little way down onto the 
headland and strolled along it. It 
was very still, with a few drops of rain, 
and the inlet looked superb - grey 
and calm. I saw a YELLOW-WINGED 
HONEYEATER in the banksia and found a 
Goshawks nest, the only nest so far 
of the trip. So home to dinner, after 
which I am writing this to the sound of 
heavy rain. 
It was a disappointing day - 53 
birds in all (only 10 more to the trips total) 
- no Bower-bird at Nowa Nowa; no Wonga 
Pigeon at Genoa and no Godwits - Barred 
or Black of tail on the sands here. But 
watching for plants that attracted us, 
made up for a lot and transformed 
what would have been an extremely 
frustrating day, into a peaceful idling 
day, in the gray still dusk, silent 
of birds, which were not so badly missed 
after all. 
