C.D. Hackman 1967 Field Note March 8 Nihoa Island Up at 5:30 am. with the ship laying only 1000 yards off the north side of the is[land]. Too much surf on that side so we swung around island + checked landing spots on the south shore. Made landings in 2 trucks between 8-9am. Spent rest of morning until noon in hauling gear up to old Hawaiian ruins high on the hillside, Junkmonivided - 9:45 am. Set up a mist net in a small gulch near some Pritchardia to try and capture some Nihoa Finches. Gene Ernie + I spent about one hour putting net up and then attempting to drive some birds in - no success in driving. Gene + Ernie went across island to check food cache whilst guarded nets and took some egg measurements from Sooty Tern + Great Frigate. Spent the rest of the day near the nets + got only 6 birds to 6 p.m. Lost measurements from 21 [illegible] Sooty Terns + 21 from St. Frigatelli and 2 from Kid-footed Booby. Vegetation Side, Solanum blooming. Finches feeding on Solonum blossoms. Crocosteria flowering Seaburne's blooming. Small palms observed growing here + there. Cheonopodium flowering Sacked out at 9:30 with a light rain shower + a great deal of lightning off to the south. Three of us squeezed into a two man tent + slept fairly well in spite of the fact that most of the air mattress have been [illegible] punctured in handling. Heard a number of Bulwer's Petrels calling during the night. C.D. Hackman 1967 Field Note March 9 Nihoa Island Just before dawn it started to rain steadily. The sky to the SW looks ominous and doesn't show much sign of clearing. Hauling our gear down the gully + then getting it down the nearly sheer wall at the landing spot (about 100 ft.) high is really going to be great fun. Everyone is looking forward to it. Started hauling gear down at 8:30 and then lowered it down the difficult by ropes. This took until about 10am. Got the boats loaded + got departed island by 10:40 am. Punctured the bow of the miller boat in loading the gear. The boat partially deflated but was still good enough to come back + pick up the people + the cage full of Nihoa Finches (42 birds) we had managed as capture. Heard the Bulwer's Petrel giving an unfamiliar (to me) call last night. Call was quite unlike the coo-coo-coo note that is usually heard. Call consisted of a series of throaty phrases + [illegible] whistles - rather pleasant to listen to: wh uh eh eh eh eh whooo haw Call is a little hard to describe since I only heard it given three times clearly. She call was field, at a distance, on numerous occasions, throughout the night. Spend several hours straightening out gear + hanging things up to dry in the forward hold. Ship was in and out of heavy rain squalls until after dark with generally poor visibility. Saw a waterspout around 3 p.m. on the edge of one of the rain squalls.