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6 - November 1954 A few days after returning 
[margin](44)[/margin]from our holiday I was completely bowled 
over by a pneumonia and today 
I left on my week's solitary convalescence 
at the Richmond Hotel Portland. 
I left home straight after lunch 
and made my first stop at the Black 
Swamp, Stoneyford. I had seen some 
WHITE IBIS perched in on tree and it 
was with faint hopes of their nesting 
that I went to investigate. No luck 
as far as that was concerned but with 
them, was one STRAW-NECKED IBIS and 
two YELLOW-BILLED SPOONBILLS. Chattering 
heavily was a SACRED KINGFISHER, and 
over the SWAMP was a GOSHAWK and a 
SWAMP HARRIER. On the swamp itself 
were only SWANS. SPUR-WINGED PLOVERS, 
MOUNTAIN DUCK and EASTERN SWAMPHEN. 
The next visit was to L.[Lake] 
Purrumbeet *[Purrumbete] on the advise of Bruce Amos 
who had camped there last February 
