Antartica field notes, v1468
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Journal but the wind was still blowing, a steady 25+ mph with gusts to 35 or 35. Snow flurries fell intermittently during the day. Pete Martin brought in a Storm petrel killed against the scene building in the evening of the 26. I checked the antennae about to have no hope there would be others but found none. The penguin chicks were all bobbled up + because each tried to get into the wind shadow of his neighbor their bubbles became long streamers running with the wind. On the slope of the hillside the horizontal stripes resulting were striking. I spent a little time taking O.L.W. pictures. Checked a couple of my enclosures. They were looted one + the chicks had gotten out. The nearest one had a penguin trapped in the wire - an adult - which I brought in so its leg was badly wounded. This was balled later + shinned in the evening. In the afternoon I balled 2 penguin chicks + shinned them out. The wind died about midnight - or at least died down. Pete Martin reported 3 leopard seals swimming along the N. shore in evening.