Lehner, Philip N., 1964-1965
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Lehner, P. 1949 22 Oct. 11 up at 7:50 A.M. ; Binion ran in grabbed (possibly springs) a gun and said ducks were flying over; saw Crested Terns near camp; northwest beach of Sibylla had seven Crested Terns on eggs (about 30 ft. from water among small bunch grass); there are many ♂ Frigate birds with gular sacs blown up - throughout the day we must have seen 200-300; %40 found Wedgetail burrows about midway up Sibylla (about 100 yards from West beach; Binion, George, Chris and myself began walking up west side of Sibylla about 8:30 A.M. (above statements occurred after leaving camp); there are hundreds or thousands of small (2-4 ft.) black-tipped sharks in the very shallow water near the beach - they almost beach themselves in their scurrying around; saw Blue-gray Noddies and Black-naped Terns at north end of Sibylla ; at 12:30 we crossed the three channels seperating Sibylla and Breje and walked the east shore of Breje to its northern end; we saw many small black tipped sharks, other Grouper-like fish and an octopus (about 3 ft.) while crossing channel ; we found an old airplane wing and a whale jaw on target plane) Breje; we left Chris on Sibylla when we crossed the channel - he returned to camp on west shore of Sibylla ; we started back from north Breje at East 1:15 ; we came down east side of both Breje and Sibylla through intermittent rain squalls; there are hundreds of Red-tailed Tropicbirds and Frigates on Breje and from what we could see on Kamone (over)