Kepler, Cameron B., 1964-1965
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9 16 June 1964 Tue KULIOUOU Swamp Kuapa Pond Coco Head + 1045 Kuliouou Swamp - High tide, mangrove swamp (not dense), mostly open mud flats. Tide out, much mud exposure. Black - necked Stilt - 50 Golden Plover - 10 (2 in molly back plunge) Wandering Tattler - 2 1120 Kuapa Pond - very desolate, prob. due to construction all about. Saw only Black - crowned Night Herons - 6. 1215-1500 Coco Head - Stopped all over the bloody craters, though the merguioto (?) in craters over cliffs & about. Saw no Fairy Terns, which was object of search. Managed to get 2 or 3 wasps stings in back of neck in my troubles. 6 Fairy Terns were seen in crater by Mike Ord & Warren King earlier this month. In area - Mockingbird (2), Sand Dove, Chinese Spotted Dove, Zosterops, Nymph, Brazilian Cardinal, Passer domesticus, game.