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flocks, or feeding in small groups. By crawling to them
on the ground I could approach within a few yards.
At first they seemed through the glasses to be just
brown and white birds. I watched for an hour,
feeding, walking, flying, preening or sleeping, by the end
of which I felt I knew every feather and they were
a "distinct species" not just a sandpiper. They were
COMMON SANDPIPERS which I had last seen on the 
banks of the Derwent at Borrowdale!
  I walked southwards on the west side of the [crossed out] la [/crossed out] 
swamp to the Lake from which it was separated by some
hundred yards of dry land. There were twenty-five
PELICANS which swam disdainfully out as I neared, 
more SWAN and [crossed out] B [/crossed out] MOUNTAIN DUCK as well as several
pairs of LITTLE PIED CORMORANTS and a single MUSK DUCK.
The sun was low as I returned the other side of the
swamp and the wind brought across to me the
cacophany of SWANS - flute-like calls as the *[they] fed in
numbers on the swamp.
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  On the following day - a warm and rather close one-
I went in the afternoon to Yeodene, To the north and
west was bush which had at one time been cleared and
is now a new growth of gums while a few hundred
yards away is a gully as deep and wet as any in
the Otways. to the south is a beautiful view of