Irish Sea & North Atlantic.
Extraordinary flight of Gulls.
Ther [Thermometer] WED. [Wednesday] AUG. 2, 1911 [August 2, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
Cool but not chilly. Mixed.
Partly cloudy, largely sunny with high
southerly wind & reported heavy showers
Ran into Queenstown Harbor about 11
& left it about noon. It was swarming
with birds mostly Herring Gulls & Little Black
heads with a few big & less Black-backs [lesser Black-backed Gulls]
& number of Murres swimming close to the
steamer. Saw one Shag on wing. In the
Irish Sea birds had been comparatively 
scarce. Since early morn I had seen only
about a dozen Gannets & as many
Manks Shearwaters [Manx Shearwaters]. Perhaps 30 Murres & 
about 75 Gulls following steamer. The Gulls
easily kept up on motionless wings heading
almost straight into wind at times. When
we turned about down wind the [they] still
followed us drifting sideways. In mid
afternoon when we were passing Fastnet
Rock they gave us an even more wonderful 
exhibition of flight than that I saw in 1909.
We were headed about 4 points off wind
blowing fully 30 miles an hour & moving 
through water at about 15 knots (this was
estimate of sailor & Allen & I agreed to it
as conservative one. Heading exactly as we
did & hence almost as close to the wind as 
a smart sailing schooner about 200 Gulls
sailed straight on after for a full mile
without a single flap keeping pace with us. All
that way Heavy and Lesser Black-backs. The big
Black-backs flapped & sailed alternately
[margin]In P.M. saw about 50 Gannets 30 Manks Shearwaters [Manx Shearwaters], a few Murres. There was a rough white-capped sea & [?] [?] steamer[/margin]

North Atlantic
200 to 400 miles west of Ireland.
Ther. [Thermometer] THURS. [Thursday] AUG. 3, 1911 [August 3, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
Lat. 50.43; Lon. 165. Run 333 m. Fine
Mostly sunny with drifting cloud 
masses. Cool with fresh W. [west] wind & smooth
sea there being little rolling or pitching
motion on the ship.
  No birds noted in forenoon but
about 4 P.M. ten or a dozen Shearwaters
were seen by Glover Allen. He called
me out to see them but I saw only
two. These looked like Greater Shearwaters
and he thought the others were all
of this species. He caught a glympse
of a smaller bird which he took to
be a Mother Cary's of one or another kind.
I spent most of day in the 
smoke room writing in my journal
an account of the marvelous flight 
of Gulls yesterday. The passengers on
the ship are a quiet & uninteresting 
lot apparently. Few of them frequent 
the smoke room.