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[14th September 1948]
swamp at Cororooke were many SWANS, LITTLE 
PIED CORMORANTS and a pair of GULL-BILLED TERNS
flying over the dairy +[and] swamp country. At 
BALINTORE were GOLDFINCHES, SKYLARKS and 
SPARROWS while on the swamp which now
contained water were, besides SWANS, many
BLACK DUCK and COMMON SANDPIPERS - a 
visitor it was good to see. As we were
driving away a [crossed out][?][/crossed out] PALLID CUCKOO flew
across the road. At the west corner of 
the Lake were EASTERN SWAMPHEN (swampy 
ground a few hundred yards away) and
COOT, again in large flocks on the water. 
17th September [margin][circled]45[/circled][/margin]
  We repeated the same route as before. 
This time I was accompanied only by Taylor
and the day was grey but not too cold
The open forest of the first part of the run
produced much the same birds - KOOKABURRA
NOISY MINER MAGPIE, MAGPIE-LARK, STARLING, NATIVE 
THRUSH, WHITE-BROWED SCRUB-WREN (scuttled in front of 
the car), BLACK-FACED CUCKOO-SHRIKE, SWALLOW WHITE-FACED
HERON, YELLOW-TAILED THORN BILL and EASTERN
ROSELLAS. At Swan Marsh we picked up a 
few more birds - RAVENS, SWANS, SILVER GULLS,
WILLIE WAGTAIL and MOUNTAIN DUCK. We had 