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[^gth_23rd lyigy ^^952] Rd and wandered a bit in wet bush 
and bracken-paddock. When just entering 
Lome on our return we put up a flock of 
WHITE-WINGED CHOUGHS - my second record 
for the district. 
On Thursday we drove to the 
Sheoak R. and walked up to the Falls. 
On Friday (the day we left) I 
spent round Lome and saw a BLACK- 
SHOULDERED KITE in front of the Pacific 
Hotel. In the garden at Thalassa, 
at last, at long last, I saw the PIED 
CURRAWONG whose existence in the 
Otways I was beginning to doubt. 
All of which points to the 
doubtful moral that one can see birds 
in one's own garden without searching. 
The question remains- what interesting 
records might I not have got if I 
had wandered off by myself. 
