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[9+10.3.48] proved good company and was not at all alarmed 
by bird-watching while negotiating the bush roads. 
Our first area of course, was the plateau over 
Colac with its open paddocks and Ball's Dam. On the 
former were MAGPIES, MAGPIE-LARKS, RAVENS and STARLINGS, 
on the latter were SPUR-WING PLOVER, EASTERN SWAMP-HEN, 
SWANS, WHITE-FACED HERON and three WHITE-NECKED HERON, 
these latter I do not remember having seen in the 
district before. On the first day there were also 
MARSH TERNS on the dam. 
On the second day EASTERN ROSELLAS and NOISY 
MINERS were seen on the fringe of the bush. Monday 
gave us immediately we entered the bush BLUE WRENS, 
GREY SHRIKE-THRUSHES, YELLOW-TAILED THORNBILLS, WHITE-EARED 
HONEYEATERS and YELLOW ROBINS. These, with GREY FANTAILS 
are the "common-birds" of the bush and we were 
very struck to find next day that they were all almost 
absent except for the Grey Fantail. But on the second 
day SWALLOWS were much in evidence. At Forest we 
met SPARROWS, WHITE-THROATED SCRUB-WRENS, KOOKABURRAS, 
a flock of SILVEREYES, and STRIATED THORNBILL. High up 
round Mt. Sabine we met CRIMSON ROSELLAS, the adults 
in pairs the immature in flocks, and a RESTLESS FLYCATCHER. 
As we drew up at Tanybryn school a FLAME ROBIN sat 
upon a fence. 
