1964 45. 18 Aug 1964 - Usual - 24 Wedgetail samples Phil -> 5 Knowge Noddies collected Age (3, 13, 18, 25 days, oldest is unknown) 19 Aug. - Usual routine - 24 more Wedgetail samples. 20 Aug - Mouse traps checked AM, Phil spun down Wedgetail blood - breakage must to high. We must slow down centrifuge. Collected 20 more Wedgetail blood samples, 4 Adult Wattle Terns (also bled) 21 Aug - A change of cubes - humdr. Much easier here. Phil got plastered again & forgot about the change of cubes, sleeping in the old one - no dinner, etc. Usual routine outside of that. 22 Aug - Usual routine - One of the young Xmas I.s. Shearwaters left today. 23 Aug. - 36 Wedgetail samples collected (Total: 101) Flock of 24 Reddy Turnstone seen. Next we will try to get Noddies - much more difficult birds. 24 Aug. - Wrapped Sooty tern banding, unsuccessful. collected 43 more sooty tern samples. 25 Aug. Pat Mason (Holmes & Murray) brought an iron. Soots hit fyugine on N. is. Will conquer Sat. to see