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DATE 22 mar 64
Pg.# 2
N
NW 65°
NE
E
S
SW
W
SE
time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc.
1300 Black-fleet A 4
1304 Sooty Shear 5 N
1305 Sooty Shear 1 N
1306 Sooty Shear 1 N
1309 Shearwater SP 2 NW
1314 Shearwater SP 2 NW
1325 Shearwater SP 2 NW
1329 Wedgetail S. (right phase) 1 SW
50ft
Salty very high - higher than Sooty Shears or tightly reefed wings - gray back, white below
wings ventrally: white with thick black edges & pattern! mottled??
600 aet-ten probable Sooty Shear
1331 Shearwater SP 1 NW
1332 Black-fleet A 3
1356 Tern SP 2 S 75ft
1401 Black-fleet A 1
1409 Sooty Tern 5 NW
1430 Blackf-leet A 2
1435 Sooty Shear? 1 N
1440 Sooty Shear. 1 N.
1458 White-tailed B. 1 E
1457 Sooty Shear 1 N
1502 Black-fleet A. 2
1504 Wedgetail S. 1 SW
1524 Shearwater SP 1 N
1525 Shearwater SP 1 NW
1525 Sooty Shear. 1 N
1540 Wedgetail S. 1 W
1600 Humpback 1 E WT 100 yds. off port type B
1615 Wedgetailed Shearwater 1 E WTb 200 yds. off starboard in perfect light 30 ft flew unusually high for Wedgetail
1615 stop for longer station.
1715 Black-fleet A. 5
1720 Underway
1740 Black/Shearwater 2
1740 Shearwater 5
1845 [illegible] observation!
ZA IB
silver seen on 2-250 to 1200yds out, scattered
500 off bow.
400 aetern silver seen
Possibly Wedgetails
probable Sooty Shears.
ZA ID
flanner ship - possibly Sooties but light bird
up to four then all sit in water / coming up from astern
1A 1 waybar
400 off bow
silver seen 500 off bow
possibly flashed from water - black capillar seen
500 off bow - silver lining seen
boat on water astern, then 300 astern
100 to pat light phase
probable Sooty
probable Wedgetail!
silver lining
200 off pat
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