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  Joan and I drove with Aunt Molly through 
Beeac and North Cundane to Lake Corangamite.
The region north of the Wairions [guess] is volcanic, much
in contour as the Stony Rises but not wooded.
But there are the swamps and on these we
got beautiful views of AVOCETS, feeding in
pairs, walking into the wind along the shore,
swinging their bills to and fro under the water.
Another pair in the middle of the swamp were
floating down wind feeding in exactly the
same way as they went. Very many
COMMON SANDPIPERS flew and fed by the
shores. HERONS rose singly from the water's 
edge, only few SILVER GULLS were seen, and 
those singly throughout the district. Five or six
WHISKERED TERNS were fluttering above one
particular swamp.
 We walked out to the end of
[crossed out]PELICAN[/crossed out] Pelican Point. In the Lake were large
numbers of MOUNTAIN DUCK which rose in 
flocks as I approached. The shore was
alive with waders - RED-CAPPED DOTTEREL,
Curlew-Sandpipers and RED-NECKED stint easily
distinguished from the commoner species 
by its smaller and broader form. SPUR-WINGED