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Gill, Douglas E. 
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two days ago. While Larry pressed our plants, I skinned out the Elepaio. 
He finished way ahead of me of course and saw I agreed to try and finish 
ih the car as he drove to the Kilanec Lighthouse. While .we were sitting 
in road working we heard a loud song which was very much like an oriole. 
and which I had heard about a dozen in the high county. Larry got a 
good look at it and identified it as a Chinese Thrush. Immediately 
after that two Shama Thrushes sat In the huhh beside the car. Wat 
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luck! I struggled with the Elepaio In the shaking car as Larry sped 
along Route 50 and frequently turned off at a variety of ponds looking 
for Hawaiian Ducks. He found the Menehune Fishpond by a backroad, 
the flaoe we went the first day. I finally finished my Elepaio when 
we passed through Kapaa, after Lihue. We turned off to th3 right in 
the middle of Kilauea and miraculously were on the road to Kilauea 
Lighthouse. As we drove towards the Lighthouse past the keepers house 
we saw a Short -eared Owl sitting on a low palm frond. And as we were 
driving out to the lighthouse we suddenly saw a Wedgetail sitting 
beside the road . We got out and discovered a large colony of Red -footed 
Boobies nesting in the bushes to the right only a few feet away. And 
behind the guard wall under those bushes were more Wedge-tails. What 
a place. Larry decided to band Wedgetalls with the string of Ho. 4*s he 
had. So we started catching Wedgetalls. I only had a right handed 
glove so only caught them but didn*t try to band them* worked along 
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the grass slope around the Lighthouse . It was steep and dropped quickly 
off down to the sea several hundred feet below. It was riddled with 
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