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[14.8.47] the open water were COOTS (a Touch of ENGLAND) and LITTLE 
GREBES. SWANS were everywhere on the water and 
feeding on the squelchy banks and there were also 
ten nests each occupied with a sitting bird. With the 
weather wet and bleak they struck me as very early 
(as of course the first nesting bird in each season does!) 
SWALLOWS and FAIRY MARTINS fed low over the water. 
The ridge from the edge of the bush (where 
parrots are always to be seen - EASTERN and CRIMSON 
ROSELLAS this time) along to Yeodene + Culliamurra 
is packed with birds and is the most fruitful 
hunting ground I have found so far - NATIVE 
THRUSHES, SCARLET + FLAME ROBINS, YELLOW ROBINS and 
KOOKABURRAS (much on the ground) BLUE WRENS -two beautiful 
males and a flock of RED-BROWED FINCHES, which 
kept moving just in front of me as I walked up 
the track. A flock of SULPHUR CRESTED COCKATOOS was 
seen in the distance wheeling over the bush. A 
pair of SHELDUCK rose from a paddock and flew 
swiftly off. 
16.8.47 On a trip to Melbourne I had a good day. A 
CROW on a nest in a solitary gum by B Warncoot 
with of course the MAGPIES and MAGPIE-LARKS always. 
WILLIE-WAGTAILS by every plantation, flying out from 
branch or post to flutter 4 or 5 feet over the ground 
