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6 + 7.2.47 On Saturday afternoon we took Michael and 
(33) nurse down to Gellibrand, just beyond La Mimosa 
where the road begins to turn up to the left into 
the bush from the valley. The cleared valley 
reminded Joan and I of Ceylon with the 
paddy-fields surrounded by hills and mountains 
of jungle - but with a difference, tussocks, sheep 
and rabbits in the valleys! I wandered off to 
look out the lay of the land and find nests. 
I didn't wander far from the valley where 
there were GREY FANTAILS and BLUE WRENS singing 
in abundance. I soon found a female of the 
latter with material in her bill which I followed 
to a nearly completed nest, three feet from the 
ground in a tussock. SWALLOWS and MARTINS 
were feeding low over tussocks while RED- 
BROWED FINCHES fed among them on the ground. 
GANG-GANG COCKATOOS were heard and not seen. 
CRIMSON ROSELLAS with mature and immature 
flew & called noisily through the bush. Then 
to my surprise a pair of BLUE-WINGED PARROTS 
flew across the valley to settle on a dead tree. 
In the evening I again came upon them 
- three in all - which flew from the ground 
up to a dead tree where they perched silhouetted 
