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flocks 0612 20±5 Sooty Terns 0715 5 petrel sp.
feeding 30±5 shear/petrels feeding?
1432 8 Sooty Terns 1546 300±200 Sooty Tern
feeding 2 Wedge-tail feeding 700±100 shearwater/petrel
5 Dive-jumped P.
2 White-necked P.
1 Bonin Elop.
1625 50±5 Sooty Tern
15±5 shear/petrel
All wedge-tails seen were bright, but some birds in flocks could
have been duds.
All Dive-jumped + White-necked Petrels molting
1 Bonin not molting - nest molting
At 0924 saw first Sooty Shear of course,
heading NW but not flying in typically long arcs.
A molting Bonin + White-necked were flushed from water.
Slightly too much swell for standing on bow.