on all the surroundi slopes but saw nothj for the better part of an hour. Then spied a love bird (looked ?, with light underpart and no brown rump) down to the left of the blind, sitting up on a rock & preening. Finally she moved off the rock and started up hill towards the blind. Lost her in the long grass but shortly afterwards there was a screeching flight in the area and a bird landed about 20 yds from where I last saw the ?, in the gully. Soon lost the second bird [illegible] It was then about 9:30 so I started watching the nest carefully to catch the red bird coming back. To my surprise, at 9:36 a red bird got off the nest and worked down the gully but up over the ridge, and I lost him in the next gully. A little later there was a prolonged screeching near the bottom of the second gully and the red bird took off screeching & flew cross the main gully. As soon as it landed I ran up to it from a few yards away. The red bird immediately & frantically fluttered, and at the same time a second bird screeched & flew- from about the same place the red bird had flown from, this bird flying down to the left of where the red bird & the ? now were. Immediately the ? was distracted, and the red bird raced up the hill away from her. She tried to follow him,