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[Nov 15th 1953]
SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER, BLACK-FRONTED DOTTERELL,
SPUR-WINGED PLOVER, CHATS, GOLDFINCHES and a 
BLACK-BIRD.  On the way back to the car
we went by a reedy swamp where we
heard the LITTLE GRASS-BIRD,and saw a
WHITE-NECKED HERON, LITTLE BLACK CORMORANT
and SKYLARK.
   After afternoon tea I left the family
and did a walk of nearly two miles in
a circle to the east, almost reaching the shore
of the other, larger lake. At first there were
many dead, morbid, Red Gums, on which
was a STRIATED PARDALOTE and a pair of
RED-BACKED PARROT - my second sighting for the
dIstrict. In a very large, shallow
swamp in which was growing short grass
were two YELLOW-BILLED SPOONBILL and three
STILTS, as well as a fair-sized flock of
Sandpiper. There were too many WHITE-
FACED HERONS. I saw a hawk - Goshawk
or Peregrine - flying low over the swamp with
a large, unidentified prey in its talons. There
were, in the surrounding dry grass, many PIPITS,