Ludwig, JP 1964 29 March 26, 1964 After a call to DC and noting that rain would again keep us off Moku Manu, I caught a flight for Kauai to work at Kilauea and to look for Newell's Shearwaters. Damn rain is really fouling up our offshore island work, and we are missing a good deal of important work because of it. Also the rest of the guys are getting nervous and a little tense at all of the waiting without being able to accomplish anything; the weather pattern looks bad enough that it seems silly to send more than one person to Kauai now: If it breaks and I find lots of work, I will send for them. Kilauea Lighthouse - 1400 Counted 294 Adults, 7 subadults, and 17 immature Red-footed Boobies. There are more than 200 nests now and building of new ones continues. Many many wedgetail burrows and numbers of adults in their burrows dur- ing the day, a few on ground surface. Rain began about 1500. Kilauea Lighthouse - 1830 At 1830 large numbers of wedgetails are flying about and many are already on the ground. Began banding and found that active burrows go all the way down to the spray line and extend from the tip of the point all the way back through the Booby colony into the Casuarinas. The leeward side and point have the heaviest concentrations of active burrows. The island just off the point, Mokuaeae, also has large numbers of wedgetails on it. Many birds were landing at dusk. Con- sidering both Kilauea and Mokuaeae as one colony, I estimate that at least 4000 pairs +- 30 percent of wedgetails, have burrows here.