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at SEA
Sheet 2
Feb 13
March 13
No.
Direction
time
Winds and remarks.
14
SSW
1425
Sooty Tern - not actively feeding,
2
SW
1435
Sooty Tern
2
NE
1445
Sooty Tern
1
W
1455
Sooty Tern
2
N
1505
Sooty Tern
1
NNE
1515
Frigate op.
4
SW
1540
Sooty Tern
1
SW
1542
Sooty Tern
1
S
1543
Blue-faced Booby - on water
1
—
1544
I. Red-footed Booby - circled ship
4
E
1545
Sooty Tern
1
SW
1605
Sooty Tern
1
SE
1620
Tropicbird op.
1
SW
1625
Frigate op. - distant
6
SW
1630
Sooty Tern
1
SW
1632
Sooty Tern
—
NE
1630
Porpoise - about 200 in 2 groups - some small ones observed. Appeared light on underside, brownish on top. When ship approached both groups headed SE.
5
NE
1650
Frigate op. - not actively feeding
35
NE
1650
Sooty Tern
1
NE
1653
A. Frigatebird chasing wedge-tail
1
NE
1653
Wedge-tail Shearwater.
1
SW
1705
Sooty Tern
6
NE
1707
Sooty Tern
1
NE
1735
Sooty Tern (going to Jarvis too)
1
E
1738
Harcourtio Storm Petrel
—
—
1800
Closed observations out
1
NE
1810
Blue-faced Booby