P. De Benedich's 1964 26 Jan Punta Espinoza, Fernandina Island, Galapagos. Dr miller with the camera. Probably the most striking feature of the birds is the scarcity and shyness of land birds. Water birds abundant and conspicuous. Species seen to date: Audubon Shearwater, O. gracilis, Flightless Cormorant, Penguin, Blue-footed and Masked (this very rare) Booby, Magnificent Frigatebird, Brown Pelican, Brown Noddy, Green Heron, Semipal. Plover, Ruddy Turnstone, Wandering Tattler, Whimbrel, Oystercatcher, N. Phalarope, Sooty Gull. Gull sp. Yellow Warbler, Buteo, Mockingbird, Geospiza fuliginosa, Tropidurus, Amblyrhynchus, Dromicus, sea lions. 27 Jan woke up just before dawn. everyone getting up very slowly. Yellow Warblers singing, sea lions barking and producing other sick-sounding vocalizations. A pair of doves showed up in camp and feed for a while at the edges of the mangroves. wouldn't eat the oatmeal I left out last night. Nothing else took it either. Feel worse. Variable clouds, clearing up in the A.H. Saw a few Geospiza and 1-2 mockingbirds. Water birds much as yesterday. After breakfast went down to wash my utensils; an octopus came out of its burrows to attack the small fish attracted to food scraps, but it didn't catch any. 4 types of fish are obvious in the pools, one a pretty deep blue one with a red back. Watched cormorants from 7:20 to nine. lots of Puffins + Sula nebouxii flying past the point + a few petrels and noddies. A Semipal. Plover and a pair of