SI-MNH-958e 7-28-64 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION DIVISION OF BIRDS AT SEA DAILY LOG -- E 1966 DATE 14 DECEMBER Pg.# 5 enchmarks: time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc. 1303 Red-breasted Merganser (1) 1304 Sabine's Gull? (1) 1319 Soo-ly-shearwater 1 various 1320 California Gull 5+ follows S.L. ships appears to be more California than Herring Gulls around here. FF 1330 Sooty Shear B-L Kittiwake 10 Mallard (12) Kittiwakes started feeding and the gulls and other waterfowl joined the frenzy. Kittiwakes all fatly bred. 1331 Phalorone 1 N Not Read as bird was too dead. FF 1345 Gull? 21 Pelican 1 Way out can't tell species 1350 Change Course to N 22 - A 180° change F 1400 Ki H. Waka 5 Pomarin Gull 2 Cl. Gulls 4 Bird #3 4 Some damn black backed, white underwings, white bellies in the morning. 1410 just past a large Keep bed - flocking and on the 1 second side y it were about a dozen or so birds lying about 18 inches below the water. There was one more. cal. Gull on the Keelers. FF 1420 Ki H. Waka 10 Gull? 4 Soo-ly-shear 2 As we are assigned that some of these birds may be repeats. 1425 begin in-flight refueling exercise with two big Huey's. 1515 Still white Huyes.