Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Smithsonian Institution Archives.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
N
W
E
S
S
E
DATE 30 Mar 64
Pg.# 1
time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc.
0610 begin observations
0635 Sooty Shearwater 1 W seen by watch
0652 Sooty Shear? 2 NW 1000 off bow
0653 Sooty Shear 1 NW silver linings seen - 600 behind ship
0658 Shorebird 1 NW possible phalarope
0710 Sooty Shear 2 NW all went back & forth across bow - then Sooty's turned & flew NW
petrel 1
0711 Dark-slung P. 1 NW
0726 Sooty Shear 1 NW silver linings seen 600 off bow
0830 Sooty Shear 1 NW silver linings seen 500 off bow
0834 Sooty Shear 1 NWW silver linings seen 400 off bow
0835 Sooty Shear 1 NWW
0849 Sooty Shear? 1 NW
0851 Sooty Shear? 1 NW
0904 Sooty Shear? 1 NW
0906 Sooty Shear? 1 NW
1012 Sooty Shearwater 1 NW 500 yds off bow silver linings observed seen by watch
1031 Sooty Shearwater 1 NW 500 yds off bow seen by watch
1035 Shearwater/ petrel? 1 NW white underparts
shorebird 2 NW probably phalaropes
1116 Shearwater/ petrel 1 NW 2000 yds
1132 Shearwater/ petrel 3 NW 2500 yds off port bow
1250 Sooty Shear? 1 NW 400 off bow
1255 Sooty Shear? 1 NWW 400 off bow
1401 Sooty Shear? 1 NW 800 off bow
(1445) Harewater SP 1 W 30 feet off bow type B
1629 Wedge-tailed Shearwater 1 NW light phase 200 yds. off bow
1630 Sooty Shearwater 1 NW silver linings seen 350 yds. off bow
1755 Sooty Shear? 1 NW
1811 Sooty Shear 1 NW
1815 End observations
35