SI-MNH-958e 7-28-64 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION DIVISION OF BIRDS AT SEA DAILY LOG -- E DATE 14 Ap 265 Pg.# 0600 Tropicbird -- Jan reports time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc. 0609 Wedgetail seen by Termite 0619 Wedgetail 1 overcast, water fairly smooth, not much wind 0648 Wedgetail 1055 Sooty Tern 30t0 Kind of "rider our low wave" in air for 2-3 minutes distant feeding flock 0650 Sooty Tern 5 5 not from the above flock? traveling 0654 Wedgetail 1 0658 Sooty Shearwater 1 N 0703 SS 1 N 0706 SS 1 N 0712 R.T. Tropic bird 1 NE 0716 SS 1 N 0717 SS 3 N 0730 Wedgetail 1 0730 Sooty Tern 2 0813 Wedgetail Bulwer's P 1 NE 0815 Wedgetail 1 0819 Wedgetail 1 0820 Leach's P. 1 0832 SS 2 N 0833 Leach's P 1 0836 Leach's P 1 0839 Wedgetail 2 0845 [illegible] OR 1 0847 Wedgetail 3 0856 SS 1 N 0922 Bulwer's P 1 0930 Leach's P 1 0932 Wedgetail 2 0928 theon (petrel) 1 0939 Leach's P 1 N 0945 SS 1 N 0954 SS 1 N 0955 Leach's P. 1 NE 1006 Wedgetail 1 N 1001 Wedgetail 1 N 1006 SS 1 W 1008 Leach's P 2 1013 Bulwer's P 1 w=12 w=1 13 Darks black-tipped shore crossed boat 0930 6' or better Flight very directional or rapid, continuous wingbeats Dark Dark What in water - feeds on squid? - pulls at fin with bill & backs away with wings & backbird full of weed. Then patters a few times, sits again.