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[22nd November 53]
birds seen giving a good idea of the 
changing nature of the country.
  We had lunch at Rosedale, just 
over the river on the left in the recently
flooded caravan-park. Opposite us
was a swamp in which we saw WHITE
IBIS . YELLOW-BILLED SPOONBILL . EASTERN SWAMP-
HEN . DUSKY MOORHEN . SPUR-WINGED PLOVER and
 heard the LITTLE GRASS BIRD. Just as we
finished lunch Joan saw a snake in
 the grass just beside her - 3-4'[feet] away!!!
  In the afternoon we got into the 
third stage of that day's journey - the
long straight stretches of road in open
forest, crossing the steeply cut rivers - with
the mountains away to the right. Shortly 
after Rosedale we came to a large, shallow
lake, on or around which were SWAN .
MOUNTAIN DUCK . GREY TEAL . WHITE-HEADED
STILT . HOARY-HEADED GREBE . RED-CAPPED
DOTTERELL. Then in the open timber, in
which there was much swampy land - 
GOSHAWK . LITTLE GREBE . COOT . WHITE-NECKED