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June 29
wind from NW
sky ¾ clouded
0810 Starts Lunch
The Cook's Petrel was a medium sized
Petrel with a dark cap, white forehead,
white underparts, grey back, grey wings,
with a spectacular black W or inverse M
across the wings and back. The
black W was very conspicuous on the
grey background. Both birds came in
at close range, which afforded good looks.
The White-bellied Storm Petrel was
spotted hovering, "wally" on the water,
20 feet from port bow. It was strikingly
sooty with a white band across the wing,
and white belly. Throat and upper
breast were dark. The back and wings
were lighter than the head. Tail shape
not observed.
0940 # 2ot Sooty Tern
0940 NW 1 Att. white bird trogids sp ?
0942 NW 5 Fairy terns
1040 NW 1 Broallareforme sp? } edge of storm
1045 NW 2
1100 NW 1 Sooty Tern
1115 NW 1 Broulluritome sp? in storm
1:19 SE 1 Cook's Petrel
1:40 S 1 White-bellied Storm Petrel
1:43 NW 1 Cook's Petrel
1:45 2 Puffin sp.
1:56 SSU 1 Bonelli's Gull Petrel (?)
2:05 SW 1 Fairy Tern
2:05 USW 1 Cook's Petrel
2:40 NW 1 jaeger (?) circling, all dark
2:43 NW 2 long black & white Shearwater
Brown Noddy attempted to land on
small Black & white Shearwaters
2:44 NW 1 Sooty Tern high
2:50 SE 1 small black & white Shearwater,
foot flap, patterned wing.
3:00 NE 50 Sooty Tern
3:00 NE 1 Red-footed Booby
3:07 SE 1 Kennedy's Petrel (?)
3:18 NE 1 Cook's Petrel (?)
3:25 NW 2 Sooty Terns
3:25 NE 2 Noddy
3:25 NE 2 Sooty Tern