Amerman, Kenneth 1963 Saw a Hawaiian short-eared owl four times in the afternoon. First scared it up from field near end of runway, then three more times at different spots as we headed west along the north beach. We believe it is probably resident and we just do not see it often. At night we collected twenty-six rats and removed ninety ticks from them in response to a request for three hundred by November 22. Using the fish net on them works well in open areas but not in vegetation. Jim reported one black-foot egg on Midway; also several ducks and shorebirds. November 14--Jim returned from Midway in the morning, reporting at least three black-foot eggs, twelve ducks. Bonin's slightly fewer than in September, tropicbirds way down, fairy terns same or even more numerous. Bill went up in the UF to get shots of the island. Hopefully vegetation maps can be made from these. Banded albatross in the afternoon. Found three black-feet on eggs here. Fairy terns seem to have disappeared. November 15--Friday Spent the day cutting and stamping marker tags for beach and vegetation stakes and in laying out plots (25 feet by 25 feet) for succession studies. Five of these will be in areas of sparse vegetation and will be checked monthly for growth and development. The remaining five will include all vegetation types and will be stripped of vegetation to observe the regrowth. Saw a pair of black-feet copulating at the north corner.