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nest, it was 4 1/2 f[ee]t from the ground in a bush,
made of small grasses and containing young
Throughout the day I found as many "Blueys"
as I did brown birds NOISY MINERS were also
in this type of bush and it [crossed out]who[/crossed out]was noticeable
that they kept to that part where there was
little or no undergrowth - photo [circled]2[/circled]. They
were also found in the pine plantation by
the reservoir.
  After breakfast we set out to the
Black Faced Cuckoo-shrikes nest where the camera
was set up - some 15 f[ee]t up on a monopod
rather by God and by guess but seven
pictures were eventually taken. We then moved
on to the other end of the reservoir where a camera
was set up at the nest of a Native Thrush in a
pine, leaving a bag hidden in a ditch, with a
long string trailing. With one bag I walked
round the reservoir back to the camp. EASTERN
ROSELLAS and STARLING were plentiful in the
bare open land. While a SWAMP-HAWK flew high
over a wheat-field where it was thought to have
a nest. SWALLOWS and FAIRY MARTINS hawked
insects over the water, and along the edge
were many pairs of WHITE-FRONTED CHATS