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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