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burrows , most of which had real cute light grey chick in them. 
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So most of our banding was on '.hicks . Larry worked down the face of the 
cliff 1 looking for Bulwer's but found no indication they were there. I 
went back to the car, ate supper, and got ray pliers going with a few 
gobs of spit. How we both could band and finished off the string of 
95 in an hour or two. We were really exhilasated 8y our sudden success 
with seabirds. It was fin to get back banding again. We left ahppy 
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and sped back to the fish pond where we decided we were going to sack 
out. /Stopping only for a ice cream, we hit the sack at 11:30, me 
inside and Larry out in the sleeping bag. The mosquitoes were pretty 
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by/d. Apparently it sprinkled again and Larry got wet and crawled under 
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'the car caterpiggle style. 
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two hours hunting for Hawaiian duck about an hour to clean up the car and 
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an hour wait for the plane. We got organized and ate some stuff then 
drove down the hill to get to the road that goes out on the dike in the 
the middle of the pond. Chinese thrushes were common along the road which 
became private. So Larry found three more ponds on the map and so we 
headed towards them. Vfe got a flat on a road which was one of many 
wrong turns. We finilly got out towards the three ponds which were 
in the middle of a beautiful grassland which was ranched. A Western 
Meadowlark flew up while we looked ot a coot in one pond. The 
road we were on was lined with a single row of these beautiful tall 
spine conifers. The area was essentially under the base of Queen 
