Antartica field notes, v1468
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Make, 1960 Journal no point in going to observe skuas in that wind so brought in the last 5 snow petrels To them. I spent the day reading "Logbook for Grace" by R.C. Murphy. The birds remained frozen until after supper so I decided to let them go. Wind died during the evening or after the movie (20,000 figures under the sea) it was clear calm out. Let's hope the radio communication improves or we get that last plane in! Nov. 16 Cape Hallett, Antarctica. Bryan Reid found some skuas eggs in the slenary late last night. This then sparked a survey of the slenary yesterday. We covered the N. half of the slenary in the morning; after noon we spent 2-3 hours discussing our projects, areas of joint interest and so on, then from 4 to 6 PM finished up the survey of the main slenary. The few nests scattered through the penguin rookery were not looked at. In the evening I skeletonized one Snow petrel & put up 2 more skuas leaving 2 more to go to finish the batch. Still no radio communication. But there was a rumor at midnight that a "pig" was