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Homeman
1964
Sand Johnston
Feb 13
Fairy Tern - 8
Rover - 80+
Turnstone - 60+
Sandpiper - 5
Wandering Tattler - 7
Feb 14
Collected gear for removal to J.I. for
storage and for temporary lab in
boma locker.
No banding for classified seasons.
Sooties arriving later and later
in afternoon, begin coming in over
island noon after their arrival; much
threading back & forth across causeway.
Roadway is last place occupied by incoming
birds. Wildfowl arrival in daylight now
after 4.30.
Feb 15
Noddies sitting along SE shore in
daytime for first time. Bimini said some
Grey-backs and Sooties had alighted
together on the causeway near the A-
antenna.
Brown Sooties, Christmas Islands and
Noddies all country.
New RT Tropic bird nest discovered
under old dock. Another bird alighted
in a hollow in some grass clumps