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One Black-footed Albatross followed us all day
At 0703 another Bird-footed Shearwater passed, this
time rather close, 150 yds or so. Previous descriptions
same, except for dark band, perhaps only partial,
around upper breast, lower neck area.
4 Harlequins and 2 Storm petrel sp. seen, all of forms Type B.
2 Red-tailed Tropics today - A large number for this area.
Dave saw a dark phased Wedgetail - very dark he said
5 Pomarine Jaegers today, even though we are over
300 miles from land. 1 dark, 1 light, 1 dark chest &
light abdomen.
At 1230 Dave saw a [illegible], grey backed, deeply
forked white tailed Tern with white underparts,
which was Arctic Tern? flying N.N Not seen as
well as could have been.
6 Sooty Shearwaters, all in the afternoon all
heading NW to W.
During morning passed close by Scripps Research Ship
Argo - 210 ft - Capt. Collinson friend of Dolly Lee's, the
capt of I.Cromwell. They are bound for Honolulu and
Indian Ocean for 6 months.
In afternoon scrambled out boom over water to
replace block on port BT which had slipped its pulley Fin.