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floors: 0835 4 Sooty Tern
travelling 2 shear/petrel
1214 8 Sooty Tern
Travelling
1431 50-60 Widge tail
feeding 8-12 Sooty Tern
1645 80±20 Sooty Tern
feeding 40±20 shearwater/petrel
1750 Sooty Tern 30±5
feeding Wedgetail 20±5
2 Dark phase Wedgetails today
At 1030 one of 2 Sooty Terns, immature
1214 2 of 8 Sooty Terns immature
1535 1 of 2 " "
1705 2 of 8 " "
At 1535 2 Sooty Terns seen soaring, deep red dawn, passed
ship going into wind, crossed low & rose to 100ft again
1458 Red-tailed Tropicbird adult with long retrices
2 White-tailed Tropicbirds sitting on water
one tropic bird seen soaring at 300ft, 100ft above a Frigate.
At 1109 Dark-rumped Petrel not molting
2 of 3 Frigates adult or
1506 found at B whalers P, grazed frid
Sator bows from 0900 to dusk.