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Lehner, P.
1964
Nov. 4
the flooded lab was cleaned in the morning by
Binion and myself while George, Ken and Larry
went to the catchment basin at the runway
to collect birds; we tried to carry our clean up
over into the other lab and the immediate
vicinity, but the task was insurmountable and we
only partially completed the task - I was for
dumping most of the scattered junk over the side
and starting from scratch, but better judgement and
Binion both vetoed it; the collectors returned
in the late A.M. with two Sharp-tailed Sandpipers
and one Erolia sp.; at 12:30 Roger and I once
more departed by plane for Roi-Namur, this time
with confidence that the proper authorities were
aware of our ambitions and had consented to
our carrying them 'out; when we arrived a
security guard was assigned to us and took us
where we wanted to go; he told us that a duck
had been caught three days earlier and had
died shortly thereafter in their freshwater pond;
three hours and two - security guards later
we were flying back to Kwajalein Island having
collected 12 Ruddy Turnstones, 6 Wandering Tattlers, 1
Godwit and 1 Golden Plover; the rest of the
day consisted of the usual hustle and bustle in
lab #1, Tom Collins', movies and sleep.