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the open water were COOTS (a Touch of ENGLAND) and LITTLE
GREBES. SWANS were everywhere on the water and
feeding on the squelchy banks and there were also 
ten nests each occupied with a sitting bird. With the 
weather wet and bleak they struck me as very early
(as of course the first nesting bird in each season does!)
SWALLOWS and FAIRY MARTINS fed low over the water.
  The ridge from the edge of the bush (where
parrots are always to be seen - EASTERN and CRIMSON 
ROSELLAS this time) along to Yeodene +[and] Culliamurra
is packed with birds and is the most fruitful
hunting ground I have found so far - NATIVE
THRUSHES, SCARLET +[and] FLAME ROBINS, YELLOW ROBINS and
KOOKABURRAS (much on the ground) BLUE WRENS - two beautiful
males and a flock of RED-BROWED FINCHES, which
kept moving just in front of me as I walked up
the track. A flock of SULPHUR CRESTED COCKATOOS was
seen in the distance wheeling over the bush. A
pair of SHELDUCK rose from a paddock and flew
swiftly off.
16.8.47  On a trip to Melbourne I had a good day. A
CROW on a nest in a solitary gum by [crossed out]B[/crossed out] Warncoot
with of course the MAGPIES and MAGPIE-LARKS always.
WILLIE-WAGTAILS by every plantation, flying out from
branch or post to flutter 4 or 5 feet over the ground