94 [page number]

[April 3-5th [1948]]
Around the house were seen YELLOW-TAILED, THORNBILLS 
YELLOW-WINGED HONEYEATERS, EASTERN SPINEBILL GREY FANTAIL 
BLACKBIRD, STARLING, INDIAN TURTLE-DOVE, WILLIE-WAGTAIL and 
SPARROWS. On the swamp were MOORHEN, COOT incl [guess]
BLACK-DUCK â€“ wild, which did not associate with the 
sixty or so tame interbred duck there - and KOOKABURRA. 
At dusk I counted 97 SWALLOWS on the telephone 
wires which crossed the swamp.  
  On Sunday morning I went for a 
walk along the river, into the sand-dunes and 
back along the beach. I saw PIPITS, SPUR-WINGED 
PLOVER, SWANS, HERONS, WHITE-FRONTED CHATS in the
mesembrianthemum STRIATED FIELD-WRENS and BLUE 
WRENS in the tussocks. In the sand dunes were 
many GREENFINCHES. On the beach was only one 
SILVER GULL but I was very pleased to see a 
pair of HOODED DOTTEREL on the rocks just above 
the tide.
  In the afternoon we went into the 
bush by a reedy creek. The bush was 
dry, the eucalypts being mainly messmate 
and iron-bark so typical of that stretch 
of coast. The birds were there in hundreds, 
the WHITE-BROWED SCRUB-WREN and the YELLOW-
ROBIN being so tame they hopped around our feet