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flocks : 1005 75±10 Sooty Tern 1055 60±20 Sooty Tern
25±10 Dark-rumped P. feeding 40±10 Shearwater/petrel
feeding 40±10 Wedgetail
10±5 Brown Is.P.
2 Fairy Tern
1 Frigatebird
1225 25±2 Sooty Tern 1505 25±2 Sooty Tern
feeding 5±2 Wedgetail feeding 14±2 Wedgetail
several Dark-rumped Ps still molting 1 Newell's Shear.
At 09/6 an all-brown Shearbird, Lighter colour,
with fairly long, straight bill curled ship twice.
No white on tail, no barring, size of Golden Plane.
Fired 5 times, but once but didn't drop.
Most Brown Is.Ps finished molting. 7 seen in water.
Immature Sooty Terns in all flocks so far.