June 11 cont - Counting only shorebirds on the perimeter I got 57 Reddy Turnstones, 2 Wandering Tattlers, 5 Bristle-thighed Curlews, 0 Golden Plovers - I am certain that many times these numbers miss the island - inland one finds large nos. of Plovers and Curlews by the lagoon. Back to the night's work, 2 Tosh 106 Sooty returns and one Layman Duck (615-30552). Of the Sooty returns, Havae strange (793-82257, 943-17848, 943-1450) I was so damned physically tired not to being fogged out Tonight alone by falling in Wedge-tail Isles, I managed to find the beach, but turned the wrong way and stumbled along blindly before I found Stadel's light. He led my tired body back to the rock ca. 2 am. Sometime today my KV roommate got married June 12 - Jepson, so anxious as he was to head back to Hono, was up at 0600 - we packed like mad-men, screamed atrocities at each other and at the seals, and water and anything - gift stuff on tugs - To HONO AT 0900. ETA - 0900 15 June Now, I should briefly like to relate the most recent birdman dilemma: We got a message that one of our party was needed as a replacement on French Frigate - no one volunteered. Later it was recommended by Dr. Pyle that Chris Thompson go; he refused. Detong being the BIC turned to me as an alternate. He asked me if I would go if he ordered me to do so. I replied no, but that I would go if Pyle ordered so. A message was sent to Dr. Pyle stating that personnel refused to obey/go. Dr. Pyle's reply was an insistence upon Thompson going. He refused to do so because he felt that he had been "served" by the project enough and that he had leave coming. No one was dropped off at French Frigate Shoals. What fate awaits the birdmen who have tempered their firmness as steel? Will the axe fall? Actually, I think that we'll all get together with Dr. Pyle and have a party over a glass of beer or something. You know, when you get isolated from the world, tempers flare easily, and people become slightly insane. Come on Honolulu!!