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DATE 17 Apr64
Pg.#
time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc.
0555 begin observation.
0625 Shearwater/
Petrel
1
sea by watch
0710 Wedgetail S.
2 W
0737 Petrel
1 W
0942 Shear/Petrel
1 N
1006 Sooty Shear
1 N
1038 Sooty Shear
1 NW
1040 bird
1 NW 25ft+ larger than Sooty Shear - flying with constant
wingbeats, dark upperparts dark underparts -
lights about face & lower abdomen. flies at
constant level for few hundred yards, then
arced turns + stayed low over water. long tailed
1042 Sooty Shear
1 NW
1225 Sooty Shear
1 NW
1232 Sooty Shear
1 NW
1329 Shear/Petrel
1 N
1358 bird ?
1
seen by watch
1555 Shearwater?
Petrel
1
seen by watch
1559 Bird-footed
Shearwater ?
1 NW
same as bird of yesterday - dark upperparts
white underparts w/dark underwing - larger
than Wedgetail - slow loose flaps
interspersed with glide.
1653 Dark-rumped
Petrel
1 NW
1800 Sooty Shear
2 W
1806 Shear/Petrel
1 W
1838 Sooty Shear
1 W
1850 stop observations