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[15 th October 1948] taking food to its young in a nest almost 
hidden in the dependent part of a gum and 
a family of Magpies peered down at me 
over the ledge of the nest. 
I returned to the Boundary Lane 
for tea. After I walked round a swamp 
where Black-fronted Dotterels and Little Pied 
Cormorants were the obvious inhabitants. 
With the latter as they circled the dam was 
a LITTLE BLACK CORMORANT- just a shade larger 
than its companions. A RESTLESS FLYCATCHER 
flew over the young saplings. By the car 
in the bracken was a BLUE WREN feeding 
young and a WHITE-BROWED SCRUB-WREN 
sung from a sprig of bracken. 
16th October 1948 A fairly still westerly was blowing 
(35) large white clouds across a blue sky, I 
went out on the swamp in the morning in 
a spitt - rather a "flattie". I visited several 
trees and found six Little Pied Cormorants nests 
in one - each with four eggs in it. There 
were also seven Yellow-billed Spoonbills nests in 
four trees, some nests had one or two eggs. 
