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[9.9.47] was not a breath of wind, the sky was pure 
blue and even the lake looked beautiful. The 
previous day had been blowing a gale from the 
west with frequent heavy rainstorms. There had 
not been a bird to be seen on or near the Lake. 
This morning the YELLOW RED WATTLE-BIRD was in its 
accustomed group of flowering gums. The WHITE- 
FRONTED CHAT was seen for a flash in its haunt 
at the western end of Queens Avenue. A single BANDED 
SPUR-WINGED PLOVER flew calling along the edge of the 
lake, alighting by the shore where I had been 
accustomed to see the pair. Whether one is 
nesting I don't know but this one ran 
daintily along the "seaweed" craning its head down 
to feed. Four MUSK DUCK, three male + one female, 
floated thirty yard out; one diving, the other 
three being content to swim round and 
round, simply looking wary. SILVER GULLS were 
there but in few numbers. They are also not 
so plentiful in Colac so I think that the 
island in Lake Corangamite near Foxhow must 
now be well tenanted. Far to the west, in 
Six Bird Bay I could see the PELICANS. By 
the waters edge near the Point were a pair 
of WHITE-FACED HERONS. The grebes had gone! 
