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[21.10.52] EGRET. Home at 7.10 pm after 
doing 192 miles for the day - tired dirty 
and unshaven, and very pleased indeed 
to be home. 
It has been, on the whole a very 
successful holiday. Max' earache and 
subsequent illness, getting stuck at the Aire 
R., no new birds for the district, can be 
balanced by fairly good weather, excellent 
camping, good country, the Kites and 
Pink Robins nests, the Satin Flycatcher 
and a total list of 129 birds - a very 
good total indeed. And I do now know 
much more about the Otways, particularly 
round the Cape, which was my intention. 
