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[18th - 23rd May 195]2
R[oa]d and wandered a bit in wet bush
and bracken-paddock. When just entering
Lorne on our return we put up a flock of
WHITE-WINGED CHOUGHS - my second record
for the district.
   On Thursday we drove to the
Sheoak R[iver] and walked up to the Falls.
   On Friday (the day we left) I
spent round Lorne and saw a BLACK-
SHOULDERED KITE in front of the Pacific
Hotel. In the garden at Thalassa, 
at last, at long last, I saw the PIED
CURRAWONG whose existence in the
Otways I was beginning to doubt.
   All of which points to the
doubtful moral that one can see birds
in one's own garden without searching.
The question remains - what interesting
records might I not have got if I
had wandered off by myself.