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[22nd November 53]
HERON . LITTLE BLACK CORMORANT . YELLOW-TAILED
THORNBILL . and SWAMP HAWK.
  And so, from Bairnsdale through 
more undulating and forested country to
Lakes Entrance where we immediately
booked in at the Club Hotel at 4.30. Settled in
we went for a stroll, eastwards through
the township where by far the most
interesting ornithological observation was
the Silver Gulls 'puddling' in the shallow
water and bringing up evidently plenty 
of food in the mud for they ate vigorously.
In the harbour were PACIFIC GULLS . CRESTED
TERNS . a pair of CASPIAN TERNS . a FAIRY
TERN  and a PIED OYSTERCATCHER .  We
crossed by footbridge to the sea-wall
of sand dune and sat watching in the 
grey evening the incredibly calm and
still waters of the ocean, and the antics
of the gulls fighting for a morsel on the
sand. As we turned to go a pair
of PEREGRINES flew swiftly over head. We
were in bed very early after tea - 7.30!