SI-MW-958e 7-28-64 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION DIVISION OF BIRDS AT SEA DAILY LOG — E DATE March 4, 1965 Pg. # 2 time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc. 0800 7 BFA 0803 Sooty Tern 1 <- 0805 Wedgetail 1 -> 0806 " 1 <- 0807 Sooty Tern 2 <- 0807 Sooty Storm 2 <- Tail short, pointed, flight more uniform than Bulwers, more like Pterodroma; 100 yds about 0816 Wedgetail 1 <- 0817 Sooty Tern 1 -> 0818 Wedgetail 2 -> 0818 Whale far ahead 0825 Petrel sp. 1 <- SSP or Bal - distant 0845 Shear-Pet 1 -> distant; Sculling more like Pterodroma 0828 Sooty Tern 1 -> 0841 Wedgetail 1 -> 0847 Fairy Tern 1 -> 0856 11 BFA 0854 Phalarope 1 Got off water ahead, hit again, then 0922 Sooty Tern 2 -> ST 11/8 0925 Wedgetail 1 -> W 8/7 0936 Fairy Tern 1 <- SSP 2/11 0951 " " 1 -> Pet 1 0951 G.B. Tern 1 <- S-P 1 1006 FT 1 ↓ FT 7/7 1015 WT 1 ( ↑ light Ph 1 1021 ST 1 ↑ G.B.T 1 1036 FT 1 ↓ LSD 1 1050 FT 1 → LA 1 1109 ST 2 34/29 1130 BFA apparently fishing as it pursued its course to the NNE - made two dives from about 35-40 feet and one aborted dive from about 40 feet to 20 feet. 3 1230 BFA 6 Follow 1300 " 6 | 1339 Sooty Tern 1 ↑ 45' at last! 1350 Fairy Tern 1 -> 1355 Leach's St. Pet. 1 lit on water out some distance, but white rump seen 1404 Laysan Al. 1 rear BFA circled close over it once.