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29^^ (Saturday) We were to have gone out to 
[October 1955] Wrights Island but the weather was too 
rough. But what was so unkind was 
that it teemed with rain almost all 
day. Joan arrived at 11.0 and we 
spent the whole day sitting in front of 
the fire. At 4.0 Mac and I went off 
in the car and he showed me where, on 
two previous years, the Masked Owl had 
nested. There was no sign today. On the 
way back I got a very good look at 
a pair of BROWN QUAIL which allowed me 
to approach to about 15 feet on the road! 
In the evening Mac showed us 
some of his shades. It was very good 
indeed to make contact with the Macdonalds 
again and having their cheerful fare [guess] did 
help us to cope with the rain. But the 
weather was very unkind ! 
30'\ (Sunday) We left the hotel at 9.0. It 
[October 1955] had cleared up and really was a 
beautiful day of blue sky and white 
clouds. A good road, the sun behind us 
