63[page number]

[23rd Nov 1953]
know. We arrived and booked in at
4.30 at the Malacoota Hotel. We took
the car a little way down onto the
headland and strolled along it. It
was very still, with a few drops of rain,
and the inlet looked superb - grey
and calm. I saw a YELLOW-WINGED
HONEYEATER in the banksia and found a
Goshawks nest, the only nest so far
of the trip. So home to dinner, after
which I am writing this to the sound of 
heavy rain.
  It was a disappointing day - 53
birds in all ( only 10 more to the trips total)
- no Bower-bird at Nowa Nowa; no Wonga
Pigeon at Genoa and no Godwits - Barred 
or Black of tail on the sands here. But
watching for plants that attracted us,
made up for a lot and transformed
what would have been an extremely
frustrating day, into a peaceful idling 
day, in the gray still dusk, silent
of birds, which were not so badly missed
after all.