Sooty Sheerwaters

These guys were busy diving for anchovies or ooligans - hard to say - the other night in the thousands, reeling with the wind and waves, plunged through by gigantic brown pelicans, ringed by raucous gulls of all sorts, the water stippled by their plenty. They migrate from New Zealand, and appeared at our little cove like a marvel last night, but tonight, they are all gone. Could be, apparently, anywhere.