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Tuesday January 15^^ 1952. 
(43) D. 
(66) T 
After Breakfast I 
took the boys to Port Fairy's South Beach for the 
morning while Joan had a rest. Purely family 
duties were not productive of birds. Gulls were 
by us on the beach and when one immature [guess] 
bird started running towards the water while 
looking in the air, my attention was drawn 
to a WHISTLING EAGLE soaring 1000' [feet] up and 1/2 
a mile away, swiftly in the other direction. 
After lunch Joan sat with the children 
while, they had a sleep and I was off the 
leash for 2 1/2 hours. I went out on the 
Portland Rd and stopped at Goose Lagoon 
which was teeming with birds. - HOARY-HEADED 
GREBE, MUSK DUCK, STRAW-NECKED IBIS, WHITE IBIS, 
WHITE EGRET and a pair of BLACK-FRONTED 
DOTTEREL. By the road the lagoon was full 
of rushes and water plants. In the distance 
the open water was seen to be teeming with 
duck. 
I went out to Yambuck where I 
hoped to see the estuary of the Shaw R. I 
could only see it from a distance and 
