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SI-MH-958e
7-28-64
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG — E
C.H. GILBERT
DATE 25 SEPT. 64
Pg.# 1
STANDEN
subtotals
sightings
No.
flights time species # dir. remarks partly overcast.
loc.
0625 Begin watch
0631 Sunrise
0659 Pterodroma 1 1 1
0700 Pterodroma 1 2 2
0701 Pterodroma 2 3 4
0703 " 2 4 6
0706 " 3 5 9
0708 " 1 6 10
0710 Cooks Petrel 1 1 1
0711 Pterodroma 3 7 13
0712 " 1 8 14
0712 " 1 9 15
0713 " 1 10 16
0715 " 2 11 18
0716 " 2 12 20
0717 " 2 13 22
0719 " 2 14 24
0720 " 2 16 26
0721 " 2 17 28
0722 " 2 18 30
0725 " 4 19 34
0726 " 1 20 35
0727 " 1 21 36
0728 " 4 22 40
0730 " 1 23 41
0732 " 1 24 42
0734 " 3 25 45
0736 " 2 26 47
0738 " 1 27 48
0741 " 2 28 50
0743 " 1 29 51
0745 " 2 30 53
0758 " 1 31 54
0757 Penny Is. Pet? 1 1 1
0758 Pterodroma 1 32 55
0800 " 2 33 57
0801 Sooty Tern 2 1 2
0807 Shearwater Pet. 1 1 1 1 imm.
all dark - long way off - see below possibly some on.
see dark with light patch, scolding - like one seen yesterday.
flew with flapping, either gliding - little wind
may have been like that above.
3 12 1
0809 Sooty Shearwater 1 1 1
Flock 0826 TERNs 107 1.2 12
Pterodroma 2 34 59
flying quite flapping a lot.
0848 Sooty Shear 2 2 3
dark phase
0905 Wedgetail. 1 1 1
0904 " 1 2 2
0908 Shear Pet 1 2 2
0911 " " 2 3 4
0912 " " 2 4 6
0913 Cooks Pet. 2 2 2
0913 Shear Pet. 2 5 8
0914 " " 1 6 9
Flock 0918 " " 1 7 10
0920 Shear Pet 205 8 30
TERNS 502 3 62
0922 Juan Fernando Pet. 1 1 1
0935 Sooty Tern 1 4 63
0935 Shear Pet 1 9 31
0937 " " 1 10 32