136 [page number]

[20.08.48] 
unsuccessfully tried to photograph the previous 
year.
  Other birds seen during the day were 
EASTERN ROSELLA NOISY MINER, RAVEN, 
MAGPIE-LARK, RED-BROWED FANTAIL 
  Admittedly we did too much driving 
but nevertheless it was a poor bird day 
and Ponder went away with an even 
gloomier impression of the Otway birds

5th September 1948 [margin]14[/margin]
  On the Sunday afternoon 
Joan, Michael +[and] I, with Molly [guess], 
drove out to see Alan +[and] Kath Noble at Warncoort. 
It was a grey day with a cold west 
wind. As we drove along the track 
across the paddock a Pipit sidled out of the 
grass and watched us carefully as we 
drove past reminding me of the Black-fronted 
Dotterel that displayed at the wheels of my car 
at Grub Lane. The plantation behind which 
their house shelters is a mixture of pine and 
sugar gum. Flying out from the plantation 
and feeding round the house were a pair of 
WILLIE-WAGTAILS, but no nest could be found. A 
flock of SPARROWS flew up from the building 
material that still surrounds the house.