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1330-- One Black footed Albatross
1345-- Four Black footed Albatross
1415-- Three Black footed Albatross, one Laysan Albatross,
1430-- Three Black footed Albatross following ship
1444-- Flock of ten Sooty terns off starboard
1445-- Two Black foot Albatross and one Laysan
1500-- Two Black foot Albatross following ship
1515-- Five Black footed Albatross following ship, also two Sooty terns
1530-- Four Black foot Albatross following ship, one Laysan Albatross
1533-- Four Sooty terns off port
1540-- One Sooty tern off port
1545-- Five Black footed Albatross, two Laysan following ship
1600-- Four Black-foot Albatross, and one Laysan also two Red-tailed
Tropicbirds
1604-- One Sooty Tern off port side, Red-tailed Tropicbird still with
us
1615-- Four Black-foot Albatross, correction Five Black-foot Albatrosses
behind ship and one Laysan Albatross
1621-- Bonin Island Petrel off port bow, possibly very very small, appears
to be smaller than the Wedge-tailed Shearwater, positive
identification was not made
1624-- Sooty terns following ship
1628-- Three Sooty terns past over ship headed northwest
1630-- Three Black foot Albatross following ship, one Wedge-tailed
Shearwater off stern
1635-- Laysan Albatross back with us
1640-- Four Sooty Terns off rear of ship head north