BCF, Cromwell, October 1964
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DATE 5 Oct 64 Pg.# 5 N W E S time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc. 1620 Cooks Petrel 1 E 1624 Templed bird up 1 E 1625 RTTB 1 G 1628 Cooks Petrel 1 W 1629 Cooks Petrel 1 NE 1635 Cooks Petrel 1 W 1636 Cooks Petrel 1 NE 1639 Sooty Shear 1 S 1839 Cooks Petrel 2 NW 1640 Cooks Petrel 1 S 1841 Sooty Shear 1 S 1848 Cooks Petrel 1 S 1852 Sooty Tern 15 ±3 E JFP 5 S Cooks Petrel 8 ±3 RTTB 2 1706 Sooty Tern 15 E RTTB 1 1708 Sooty Shear 2 S 1709 JFP 3 S 1710 Cooks Petrel 2 S 1712 Sooty Shear 2 S 1714 Sooty Shear 3 S 1724 JFP 4 S 1726 Sooty Tern 150 ±20 SW JFP 75 ±10 =75 Cooks Petrel 45 ±10 Fairy Tern 2 Vaegea sp. 1 1740 albat/petrel 1 S 1750 J.F. Petrel 1 S 1751 Sooty Shear 1 S 1755 Sooty Shear 1 S 1800 Sooty Tern 75 ±5 J.F. Petrel 2 Cooks Petrel 135±25 Sooty Tern 25 ±5 1802 Sooty Shear 1 S 1803 Sooty Shear 1 S 1804 Sooty Shear 1 S 1805 Sooty Shear 1 S Feeding - many Sooty Terns immature Travelling Feeding all dark, smaller than Pomarine. Fem tail seen with protruding central rectrices, very short Migrating, very directional flight, but smaller than Sooty Shear, wings not outstretched reaching like SS. High ones but no waybeats seen, underwing not seen in bad light. Feeding mainly dusk → joined into one flock Feeding 1815 Wedge-tailed Shearwater - dark above, white below with all dark or nearly dark in-dowings? Light bud. 1830 End Observation 584