Field notes, v1444
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LIDICKER 1990 Bermuda Trip 6-13 Oct Flew to Bermuda via NYC to participate in BIOSIS Board of Trustees meeting. Stayed at Bermuda Bio. Station for Research which is in St. George's Parish on the east end of the island complex across a small channel (Ferry Reach) from the airport. Meetings continued through Oct 10. On Oct. 11 Harmless Lily came within 50 mi. to 5 islands and stopped all forms of public transportation. We walked to Ferry Pt. and then to St. George's in pm. On Oct. 12 we took bus to Dockyard and we drove W ad Lights, after visiting the Maritime Museum walked to Somerset Bridge, passing through the Azalea Wingate Saw cherry. Took ferry to Hamilton at dusk. On Oct. 13, visited Zoo, aquarium + museum + flew to NYC at ~ 14:45 and back to California arriving at 22:45 PT (02:45 Bermuda time). In afternoon of Oct. 9 our group was taken by Staten Island to Nonesuch Island. There we saw places on the island and adjacent inlets where cactus (Bermuda Petal) breed, including an artificial nursery made by David Wingate - the resident naturalist & wonderer of the Nonesuch Island Sanctuary. The docks area is Dec. for nesting + the eggs are laid from laying eggs + raising young. We also saw clipp when Yellow-billed Tropicbirds nest ("long-tails") in the summer. Byron Watson said he might have seen one fly into a cliff.