Ornithological Field Diaries of A. Graham Brown - Diary #5

I had become enrolled as a bird-bander with a license from CSIRO, Canberra and the Dept. of Fisheries & Game. The Colac Field Naturalists had commenced so I thought a programme of ringing could well be introduced. It was obvious that Lake Corangamite was a likely spot for rookeries, but it is huge and an efficient reconnaissance could only be made by plane. So, through the help of Graham Woods, I contacted a crop-spraying pilot…
This is an excerpt from the fifth Australian field diary produced between 1947 and 1957 by Arthur Graham Brown, a man who would later become the president of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists’ Union (RAOU) and an Honorary Associate of the National Museum of Victoria.
Graham Brown's diaries are rich in descriptive narrative and are dotted with photographs and hand-drawn maps. They are an invaluable record of the species he encountered on his many field expeditions.
For more information about A. Graham Brown, see:

Obituaries Australia: Brown, Arthur Graham (1919–1982)
Encyclopedia of Australian Science: Brown, Arthur Graham (1919 - 1982)
Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 , Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2001, pp 492.
This expedition of 166 tasks is fully transcribed and validated.