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[8^^ August] one variety - a ROYAL SPOONBILL, whose black legs & bill 
stand out even in fairly poor light. In a 
small dam nearby was a single WHITE-NECKED 
HERON. 
At Yeo we pulled the car off the road by the 
Cherry-tree which used to mark the entrance to 
the Hancock's property where we were last on 
15th November 1947, when Michael was three weeks old. 
I wandered off down the track which led off 
into "young bush" which was left after the timber 
folk had left it. It makes a typical habitat 
and a very pleasant area of which the more 
prominent birds are YELLOW ROBINS, CRIMSON ROSELLAS, 
WRENS, STRIATED PARDALOTE, NATIVE THRUSH, WHITE-NAPED 
HONEYEATER, WHITE-EARED HONEYEATER, BROWN THORNBILL and 
SCARLET ROBIN. The track crosses a swampy creek 
full of a course *[coarse] grass and reed with thick 
whip-stick tea-tree scrub in which were CRESCENT 
HONEYEATERS & YELLOW-WINGED HONEYEATERS. On the 
fringe, on many stumps that dotted the 
paddock were KOOKABURRAS - and of course 
EASTERN ROSELLAS and NOISY MINERS in the ridge 
before Yeodene. 
I walked back down this creek and 
had not gone far before a Black Wallaby 
