EAC 2, Shearwater, January 1967
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E OBSERVERS: Ship Direction SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION DIVISION OF BIRDS AT SEA DAILY LOG - E SPECIMEN or Diurnal Grid Pg.# 1 Date 26 June '67 TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS 0715 Began obs. - overcast sky, sea calm 0720 Sunrise 0730 1 BFA follow ship. 0750 WRSP 1 E 0754 WRSP 2 E 0805 BFA 1 now 2 following 0900 BFA 1 " 3 " 0900 Herring Gull 1 filling sky - I am 1010 Whale - seen very briefly, no flukes showed, (30-52 125-10) 1012 BLK 1 W Apparently dove. 1020 BFA 2 then Now 5 following. 1028 WRSP 1 1030 Herring G. 1 seen by bridge 1036 BFA 3 a now 1ad, 1mm following. 1100 WRSP 1 Now 8 following. 1115 WRSP 5 sitting, Leach's Storm P 1 coll, sitting with other 5 WRSP 1122 WRSP 2 on H2O 1203 WRSP 1 SW 1210 " 3 SWSW 1250 " 4 1308 WRSP 1 SO Feeding 1307 " 1 SW 1315 " 3 SW Feeding 1346 WRSP 1 OO feeding on H2O 1351 Storm Petrel sp 1 1351 WRSP 1 LT 1356 WRSP 1 WE Feeding 1356 WRSP 1 W 1416 WRSP 2 B 1432 WRSP 1 recently 3 BFA, and 3 Herring Gull following, 1505 immediately following ship Baird's Porpoise 38'10 going NE 30-49 124-14 over Porpoise. SI-MNH-958-e Rev. 5-66