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[16.11.47] nest, it was 4 1/2 ft from the ground in a bush, 
made of small grasses and containing young 
Throughout the day I found as many "Blueys" 
as I did brown birds NOISY MINERS were also 
in this type of bush and it whe-was noticeable 
that they kept to that part where there was 
little or no undergrowth - photo (2). They 
were also found in the pine plantation by 
the reservoir. 
After breakfast we set out to the 
Black Faced Cuckoo-shrikes nest where the camera 
was set up - some 15 ft up on a monopod 
rather by God and by guess but seven 
pictures were eventually taken. We then moved 
on to the other end of the reservoir where a camera 
was set up at the nest of a Native Thrush in a 
pine, leaving a bag hidden in a ditch, with a 
long string trailing. With one bag I walked 
round the reservoir back to the camp. EASTERN 
ROSELLAS and STARLING were plentiful in the 
bare open land. While a SWAMP-HAWK flew high 
over a wheat-field where it was thought to have 
a nest. SWALLOWS and FAIRY MARTINS hawked 
insects over the water, and along the edge 
were many pairs of WHITE-FRONTED CHATS 
