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16.9.52 We both had a good night, Max in the car 
(37) and myself beside it, though there were some 
(79) heavy showers. We were up shortly after 5.0 AM, 
had finished breakfast, tidied up and were off 
at 7.0 to look at the scrub beside the river. 
The going was very thick, particularly fallen 
trees and saplings from the flood. At one 
spot we heard moving [guess] and grunting calls 
and Max saw what he thought was a 'green' 
SATIN BOWER-BIRD but we are not positive of 
the identification. We heard and caught the 
nearest glimpse of an OLIVE WHISTLER. 
We were back at the car at 9.0 AM 
and after packing and writing notes set off in it 
at 10.0. We went through Chappie Vale on the 
Lavers Hill Rd. We stopped and watched 
them winching logs up from the gully - an 
interesting and incredibly muddy operation. 
It was now very cold and began to rain hard. 
At Lavers Hill I rang home but could only 
speak to Nancy Squires. I learnt that supplies 
could only be got at Beech Forest so went off there 
dropping Max in the patch of scrub at Weeaproinah. 
