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pealgics from shore



All,

On Friday, while on a extraordinarily poor surf fishing trip to Core
Banks, I saw two Wilson's Storm-petrels and three Greater Shearwaters
from the Point at Cape Lookout. There was a strong Southwest wind, and
all the birds were seen over the south side of the point.  We fished for
about 1.5 hours at the point; the the shearwaters were traveling
together, while the storm-petrels were separate sightings some time
apart; both species came within about 40 yards of me on the beach. The
shearwaters actually passed over the breakers about  200 yards west of
me at one point.

I also saw several gannets off the beach on the northern part of the
island and two dead common loons on the beach. (There was also a dead
bottle-nosed dolphin on the north side of the Point.) There were several
flocks of red knots, a few black-bellied plovers, and the usual summer
actors on the beach.

I did manage to catch one nice gray trout that won me $50 in our fishing
club's pool!

Take care,

Clyde Sorenson
NCSU Dept. of Entomology
Raleigh and Clayton, NC
clyde_sorenson@ncsu.edu