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[30 th January 1957] 
[3]lst January 1957 
feet of me. It was a most rewarding 
short walk. 
-Thursday. We left at 
10.30 on Mr Hansen's launch for the 
trip up to Gipsy Point. It was very 
hot and an ideal method of spending 
such a day. Two WEDGE-TAILED 
EAGLES with white upper base tails and 
generally pale in appearance, made 
me think of Ospreys, but I don't 
think they were. 
After a couple of beers, and lunch 
we came down the inlet again and 
the launch turned north at Fairhaven, 
Hansen's farm. However he dropped 
me off on the Goodwin Sands where 
I had 2Vi hours to myself. Young 
LITTLE TERNS were being fed on the 
banks amongst much chittering, LITTLE 
STINT and SHARP-TAILED STINT as well 
as flocks of RED-CAPPED DOTTEREL flew 
off in glittering flocks. I moved along 
