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[5th September 1948]
cocks nest on top and young inside the 
main entrance which was nearly vertically 
up from below.
  In the evening I watched the 
beginnings of roosting activity. Magpies 
Ravens and a croaking Heron settled in the 
pines. Starlings flew in from the surrounding 
country setting up a great wheezing in the 
evening air. A flock of GOLDFINCHES flew 
restlessly up and down the plantation over 
the tops of the trees. A BROWN HAWK was 
seen at some distance on a barrier by a 
rabbit burrow watching for the evening exodus 
of the rabbits. Finally as it was dusk a 
flight of SILVER GULLS beat their way 
steadily westward over the creek, heading 
perhaps for L[ake] Murdeduke.
9th. September.   This morning Thursday I had 
a call out to Alvie and so I took 
the opportunity to return by Ryan's Lane 
and the road that skirts the lake. It was 
a grey windy morning with storms 
coming swiftly from the west, blotting 
out everything with driving rain. The 
obvious bird of interest was the COOT, which