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Johnston, 0* W« 
1964 
1R Apr h'f-ko Island 
cpu -ht readily. We went on over to Flipper lolnt for bending. Bonded 
1000 Booties, 9 ray-becked Terns (1 large chick), but bending to nicht 
was not very good. This war, probably because of a moon glow through the 
clouds, so th't. the terns could sko us easier end thus were more difficult 
to catch. At, one point in the colony there were many newly hatched (today) 
chicks, end here end there in the colony were older chic's running around 
in the dark, ’’ostly, though, adults were sitting on their single eggs. 
So far this year we have had 36 returns of ooty Terns . banded last veer 
here Ws Ve , ? night we e*o * e couple that we bended over at Kuku ft , 
■VMs "ear. Vie both noted the ro re aggressive nature of the Booties 
tonight— many adults not only dabbed with the bill or threatened with 
open bill, cries, and spread wings but * ! lso reedily -t tacked the light 
or our legs. Found at least h doe. dead chicks! also IP dead Booties on 
the beech. Sounds like human visitors before us. 
19 Apr Today the weather was superb*, pertly cloudy with ctueuIus clouds in a blue 
sky, strong S"E winds, warm and sunny. In the morning ( unday) we went 
out to the Flipper Point ternery. Yesterday I had moved an extra egg into 
each of 20 nests, thus 2 eggs /neat instead of 1. Today none of these 
sets was being incubated, but 1 suspect one of theressons was the fact 
that the original egg (yesterday) was fresh and had been placed too 
close to the rofd (greater disturbance from human traffic,/. Ye photo^ 
graphed birds in the colony, particularly looking for 0£S2-bs£kM 2£ES. 
nests back under the trees. Found 2 such nests each with 1 egg end saw several 
nearly-fledged yng. under the trees. The adults proved to be too wary 
to be photographed.? they won * t sit tightly like the Booties. Around this 
