Marilyn spent just over an hour this afternoon at the pier viewing Rabbit Island. Sadie RB12 and PO4 were the only critters that she observed. They were between the 3BS and SRI, pretty much where they were yesterday. PO4 was nursing when she first spotted them and then he moved about and was playing with a rock for a while. Today he is 41 days old. Only Sadie knows how much longer she will stay. They got in the water about 2:15, so Marilyn decided to call it day.
Marilyn had an interesting sighting in the bird department. It appears the Sooty Terns have left for the season. She's' not sure when that happened.... I don't think it was yesterday. There were Noddy Terns on the waterfront rocks near Middle Cliff and for the FIRST TIME a pair of Masked Boobies on the Lanikai end of the island part way up the mountain. This may be the first time their being reported.Team Billand did all their usual searches on this very crowded Sunday. The only critters they found today was at the outfall.
The first sighting was RH32 Ka'ale stealing fish from the fishermen. Hmmm that BOY!!!!!They left and then returned just before 10 am and there they found Lei Ola RH48 joined in on the fun of catching fish for the rest of the day. The bait ball is big but the seals went around it, out of the outfall and would return inside. They repeated this over and over. The two never hauled out they just continued to forage. I bet tomorrow the two of them haul out somewhere and just snooze the day away.
brown noddies
Masked Boobies
Sadie and PO4
Ka'ale RH32
nice photo... nice to see this perspective
Ka'ale and Lei Ola
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