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September 30th 1952 - SUMMARY 1951-52.
   It is well into the next breeding season
before I have settled down to this summary,
almost 3 months late.
   The years first big excitement was
the hundreds of Blue-billed Duck on L[ake]
Thurrumbong in September, with which I
have been able, very satisfyingly, to impress
my colleagues - even Jack Jones had never
seen them in such numbers, and had
never seen them flying. The Mallee. at
Hattah, was the Year's bird holiday and
Ã¡n extremely fine one it was, with a
lot of new species for me and a very
good time socially, That was closely
followed by the trip to Waaree with
Max and the finding of the Ground-Parrot,
one of these day's outing I will never
forget. A holiday to the Grampians was
more of a family nature, though pleasant
and - interesting enough. Similarly was
our caravaning holiday westwards along
the south coast in January, and the