23 Apr. Johnston, D. M. 1964 Lake Island 25 nearly black and white Very fat. N side air strip less distinctive bands - more solid #1852. Pluvialis dominica. ? fol. to 2 mm. About 1/2 breeding plumage. Heavy molt. 172.3 g. Wing 166 mm. Tail like #1841. N side air strip. Excessively fat. The weather turned quite nasty late in the afternoon and evening-- overcast, light rain, 20 mph E or NE wing. No banding tonight. Banded 400 Sooty Terns chicks in all at Flipper Pt. colony. April sunrise sunset 5 0644 1908 10 0640 1910 15 0635 1911 20 0632 1913 25 0628 1914 30 0625 1916 24 Apr In morning weather was much better (as usual, partly cloudy, sunny, E trade winds) than rain and wind during night. Drove around airstrip, noting only 9 widely scattered Golden Plovers. On lagoon sandflats were 2 Golden Plovers, 1 Turnstone, and 4 Tattlers. On way out to Peale Island near bowling alley we noted 3 Fairy Terns; same general area where we saw one earlier. It looked like there was a pair that stayed rather close together as they flew around plus one "odd man". There was some chasing among the birds. On two separate occasions they came down to some Tournefortia trees, fluttered among their branches, and briefly