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AT SEA RECORDS - JUNE 1963 - Leewards
June 4, 1963--0935--Clearing harbor mouth. Two Brown Boobies sitting on buoy.
0958--Sighted Wedge-tailed Shearwater.
1004--Wedge-tailed Shearwater off port.
1009--Common Noddy off port.
1018--Common Noddy and three Gray-backed Terns flying northeast.
1025--Two Sooty Terns flying northeast.
1029--Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Grinnell off Barber's Point.
1034--Common Noddy, starboard side.
1035--Two Common Noddies, way off starboard.
1040--Common Noddy, port side, flying west.
1043--Common Noddy, port side, flying southwest.
1045--Common Noddy, starboard, flying north.
1051--Wedge-tailed Shearwater, off port.
1058--Seven Sooty Terns off starboard.
1059--Seven Sooty Terns off starboard, flying northeast.
1100--Six Sooty Terns off starboard. It appears that the Sooty Terns are sort of in a continuous stream, flying toward the northeast.
1101--Small craft off starboard bow, with many birds behind it. There are approximately forty Common Noddies, and ten Wedge-tailed Shearwaters, which are feeding in the water.
1110--Approximately 300 birds feeding off the bow, very close. There appears to be a 3:1 ratio of Common Noddies to Wedge-tailed Shearwaters. One Brown Booby sighted.
1130--Red-footed Booby off starboard.
1200--We went for lunch and didn't return until 1400.
1421--One Wedge-tailed Shearwater was sighted off port, going southeast.
1450--An I.S.T. passed us going toward Pearl Harbor. We were interested, and