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January 1st 1950. Was the most superb day 
(36) imaginable - hot with a cloudless 
sky and a soft west wind. In the 
morning I dropped Joan and the family 
with Kath Noble and set off on my 
wanderings, largely with the idea of 
taking photographs of the district with my 
old Kodak which I had just adjusted. 
My first stop was at Warncoort 
where I took 3 photos of Mr Laurie 
Denis' front paddock as an example of 
open forest. Then up to Yeo where I 
took a long distance westerly photo of 
Ball's Dam. Of the dam itself I took 
6 photos. Around the dam were the 
"regulars" - EASTERN SWAMPHEN, SPUR-WINGED 
PLOVER, WHITE-FACED HERON, a few BLACK DUCK 
LITTLE GREBE, LITTLE PIED CORMORANT, SWANS 
and SWAMP-HARRIER. Two other Raptors were 
the GOSHAWK and a WHISTLING EAGLE. I 
the reeds were the LITTLE-GRASSBIRD and the 
REED-WARBLER and as ever the air above 
was full of SWALLOWS. 
