BCF, Cromwell, March-April 1964
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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 75