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Juns4 winds E
0745 | Start watch
0830 | 1 | Bird sp?
0837 | 1 | Bird sp
0845 | 1 | SE | Atris/ Shearwater type white face & brown whit underparts black tip towings
0849 | 1 | N | Bonin's Petrel
0849 | 1 | E | Atris/ Shearwater type
0950 | 1 | S | Christmas Shearwater type
0850 | 1 | N | Petrel Shearwater type
0900 | 1 | S | same as 0845 today Audubon's slightly larger
0901 | 1 | E | Wedgetailed (Dark phase)
09:15 | 1 | E | Flying high Red tailed Tropic Bird
09.20 | 1 | Circling dead R.T. Bulwer's Petrel
1024 | 1 | Audubon Shearwater
1036 | 1 | Audubon Shearwater
1048 | 1 | N | Audubon S? medium sized petrel, white or grey head, dark paler round eye, brown back & wings thin white strip above upper surfaces of wing, thin white wing linings bordered with dark? black/white Petrel/Shearwater?
1120 | 1 | W
1123 | 1 | SE
1138 | 2 | NWN | a Puffin sp.
close at 1155
1300 | 1 | ? | Bulwer's Petrel
1310 | 2 | S | Bulwer's Petrels
1310 | 1 | S | Bonin Is. Petrel
1323 | 1 | SE | Bulwer's Petrel
1345 | 1 | W | "
1430 & 1500 | 100+ | NE | Wedgetail at dusk
Same | 5+ | NE | A Audubons Shearwater
Same | 2+ | NE | Manx Shearwater