SI-MNH-958e 7-28-64 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION DIVISION OF BIRDS AT SEA DAILY LOG -- E DATE 15 Apr 65 Pg.# 1 N W E S time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc. 0605 begin observations 0608 Leach's P 1 2 0615 shear/petrel 2 0618 SS 2 0625 Leach's P 1 1 0648 Blue-Faced Shearwater 3 N 0650 Pomarine Tern 1 NW 0655 SS 1 0655 Bubulcus P 2 NW 0703 SS 2 0715 Newell's S 5 NE (for sure? 4?) 0726 shear/petrel 1 0730 SS 1 NW 0750 shear/petrel 7 N 0753 SS 1 NW 0809 SS 2 WNW 0809 Wedgetails 2 0810 Birds 2 0811 Leach's St. Pet. 1 0820 Sooty Tern 35+25 3 Wedgetail 10+5 3 0837 Sooty Tern 1 Wedgetail 1 0840 Sooty Shearwater 1 NWW 0850 Sooty Tern 2 5 N 3 Wedgetails 2 0855 Leach's St. Petrel 1 S 0903 Wedgetail 1 0945 Sooty Shearwater 1 N 0958 SS 1 NW 1030 Leach's P 1 NW 1031 Leach's P 1 1038 Sooty Tern 18 Wedgetail 1 Pom Tern 1 1052 SS 1 NW 1055 SS 1 NW 1108 Wedgetail 1 1125 Sooty Tern 4 sea by watch sub adult all light travelling in a widely scattered group - I was Newell's for some, other 4 too far to be certain but probable. white underparts - travelling flock - too far to tell anything more far horizon feeding flock, large fish jump underneath Termite says were skipjack light ph. moving more than feeding, perhaps not feeding at all may have been more Wedgetails dark ph. dark fled then spread light dark 184 360