Ludwig, James P. 1963 53 December 14--It rained until 3 p.m. today so stayed in working on the report outlines and digesting the long letter from Bill. The news seems generally good, but D. C. apparently is yet a bit confused. Well, it all will be fixed soon! When the rain quit went to the overrun and saw: 2 Shoveller 7 Sharp-tails 2 Widgeon 18 Sanderling 1 Pintail 4 Tattler 4 Grey-winged Teal 50+ Plover 50+ Turnstones After dinner caught up on paper work and worked some more on the report outline and rough draft of parts of it. Then went Petrel banding getting 107 and 23 recoveries. Saw petrels copulating tonight, and many appeared to be paired. Other than fighting there seems to be little displaying in these birds. All are digging burrows. People have been killing lots of them--counted 58 dead birds around Hartley Field and the CPO club, many with heads twisted off. Surviving birds are very wary. In bed by 1 a.m. December 15--Slept in today and then filled out the Band recovery forms and itemized the Petrel recoveries (fifty-five in December) so that I won't be duplicating effort. Before we started this year Chan Robbin had managed to tag about 20 percent of this population: with our efforts, it should be close to 30 percent now. Caught plane to Kure at 1400 to get MCBEE cards from Roger, take Bill's letter and have a chat with him. Spent an hour talking over the changes to him and speaking to Joe. We stayed for dinner and then caught the