While fishing in the ocean a few miles south of Napeague, we encountered close to a thousand shearwaters working the bait-filled water. Most were great shearwater, but there were 50 or more Cory's and a few Wilson's storm-petrels, as well as the expected terns and gulls. The biggest treat may have been the whales (pretty sure one was a humpback and one a fin), which hung out with us for several hours.
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