T Lyons 1939 pg 2 Sooty Tern Nov 19 - Peel 9:10 AM one flew over while I was on the sand flat between toe of sand spit and Wake Channel. Wake no trace of sooty terns at meeting right at head of Peel-Wake Channel. Dec. 2 - Peel Compound. For about past 3 weeks sooty Terns have been calling at night as they fly over, almost between 7:30 & 11:30, almost always within one minute of listening. Dec 3- Peel, at 4:30 there were hundreds of terns above the Wake-Peel Channel. At 5:45 there were thousands. Weather: Rain squalls. Feb 14 Peel seen meeting up along sea ridge from other Wake Peel channel to road to coal gables - none on Wake meeting site. Now or last year Peel site eggs seem to be layered in rows were ground smooth for road at the sea ridge. Great variation in egg marking & color - pale color varies from green to brown - spots black, brown grey. Seem to be more Tern than last year. Of at least 500 nests only one has two eggs - none hatched yet. Feb 17 - Peel AM Harry Sweeten went over to the first nesting terns first Small of the hotel they were just hatching some seemed to have been hatched by