common and numerous sanderllngs were seen on the mud flats around the pond. 
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A group of about 20 stilts were seen on the far side of the pond and three 
were out on the mud flats near ns, A few wandering tattlers were observed 
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in their winter plumage. There were about 30 coots out on the oond, 
and we noted one female frigetebird circling overhead. 
Fi*ora here we went up around the point and back on Rt. 63 till we sicked 
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up Rt. 83 and turned right here to go up through Kaneohe end on u the 
coast. We stopped at various points along the way to observe shorabirds 
along the beach, or white-eyes and Brazilian cardinals in the vegetation, 
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We scanned the cliffs for shearwaters and boobies, but found only feral 
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pigeons. The cliffs at this si e of the island are close to the ocean end 
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rise up sharply for several hundred feet. Even the steepest slopes have 
some greenery clinging to them, though the vegetation on the lee side 
is quite sparse and ry as the environment is semi-arid on the slopes. 
Everywhere we go we are impressed by the variety of tropical-type ha" itats 
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and the paucity of the fauna in them. One may walk for a mil- in the 
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woods and never hear a bird sing, 1 ecause there ore none* 
Shortly past Punaluu we took the trail up to sacred falls. After 
driving through the sugar cane fields for about a mile on muddy roads we 
had to pay some old coot 50 cents to prrk in his cow field so we could 
walk up to the fa Is* This is, no douit, a good ra ket, though, as there 
were 20 cars parked in tho cow field. The trail to the falls twisted for 
about a mile through the vegetation along the stream which drained the 
