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The little water holes are sizeable duck ponds and there is 2 or 3 inches 
of standing water between them. 
The Teal are new ducks I From the dumpy things of the last week weathe 
out the wind & drought with heads under their ruffled back feathers. 
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Today they are real little ducks, perked up no end, and waddling aoOu.c 
from tiny pond to pond with a contented proprietory air. The rain was worth 
it for their sake alone, for the terns will soon have a new crop of eggs. 
Luckily laying had .just commenced, altho there were more eggs than I 
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thought last night in my hasty survey. Today we saw the remnants of pO or 
more, but early as we were the curlew had no^ Icj. ^ one v.nolc ego» 
Wandering Tattlers, too, are more common than I have seen them. Per 
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hats that is simply because I have not worked tne oeacn much. At Uj- 1 
, events they have swarmed into this fresh water this morning. Turnstones, 
too, are running about each little fresh lagoon and the healthy new - 
damaged Plover are also plentiful in the flooded area. One thing I can 
say for the Plover. It has only been the skeletized wan birds mar me d for 
death by the salinity of the waters, if that it be, without even strength 
to bep-in the soring moult, that 1 have seen roboing nests. Whethes 
diet is causative or merely a last resort of their weakened condition I 
know not, but chances are all in favor of its being merely a chance 
accomoaniment, for certainly the curlew all, rob nes^s - si.oLcCi.£» —— 
the act have been disgustingly fat - some thin to the point of sic.mess. 
All 
the turnstones seem 
fat 
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egg habit. Think I 
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good 
Hurried back to the 
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eoc. down to the beach at the So - e end of the ism.no. Inis is 
the main Man-'o* -war bird rookery, on a low rock escarpment, ou~ 
;t exit ion to the "brown gooneys" (D. nigripes). 
shy so we cuickly turned at 
