Husted, Dayle N. 
1964 . 4i 
September 12- -The sky was mostly clear and the sea was calm, almost 
flat at times. We are down in the southern end of the grid. Much more 
bird and other animal life was observed today. All during the day 
"Blackfish were observed at various times. At 1500 a Green sea turtle 
was seen. It was about 30+ inches in diameter. Three fishballs were 
picked up today that had various crustaceans growing on them. A total 
of 626 birds were seen. There were 15 flocks. Seventeen Harcourt T s 
Storm Petrel were seen, six in a flock by themselves. In one of the 
flocks there were numerous immature Sooty Terns. Roger is still having 
trouble spotting birds along ways off. At 1600 a parasitic ? jaeger 
was spotted by Clapp and Termite in a flock (immature). It fit the 
discription in Peterson. It had the same overall color pattern with 
barred rump, small slightly pointed central tail feathers, it was 
definitely smaller than a Pomarine Jaeger. Light below and duskier 
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towards the chest. Barring of the underparts wes not noticeable. I 
think we got screwed by John ! s today. When I saw that we were going 
to have some birds I told Bobby this would be an excellent day for some 
shooting. Johns was standing below and behind us and he suddetLy did 
a disappearing act. Right after that, he had the boys working on 
the bow, which took all day, so I didn f t get to collect anything. It 
would have been the best day for collecting so far. The other days we 
could have collected, it seems rather strange, Johns had someone up 
on the bow then too. With him in command next trip I don T t know how 
the collecting is going to be. 
