120 . 
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L p v n a t traooinp all morning. Alan and I s ^ ,a ^ t 
26 Fob. Rat trapping n , „ t t?C0. Wo catch 119 
at 0900 and just finish by ^ were 
rats, 11 of them unmarked, a total oi j> 
not previously caught. Qr six ^ hour days> 
Wo aro all exhausted f Qh A- out 1500 Bob and 
’° ™ * ^alS-feet ectoparasites and blood. Bob 
iLSSf^K "l^Twent 
■ ornithological first. Will* 0 * >; ot knowing it was 
for Pliers, ho strangled £d t0 put the 
dead ho banded it. ai“ , , - .+ ds fj. 0S hly dead 
on another bird Bleeding UrdHT 
doas work - I got 10 c • j pjj 20 i *4l. 
Who was immedia telysKinned ^ to band, but 
Meanwhile, Alan searene there is a very 
draws a blank in tha ^ f q ^ sa ^ s from the island. After 
Conspicuous absence of Ber ie Z ©s, weather, boobies, 
chow we all run about go S . d Laysan Albatross 
etc. I show Alan a ^° u ^ that^from now ons. After a 
study areas - he will do » take a chink out of 
good ^/"^Sysans Wed this p month, but find 
“the goal of 100i Uysan re2U lar locations are 
almost no birds aboU ^; ^ eason .° our disturbance has 
deserted, for no apparent reason . it 
not been as widespread as is the lack ox w 
ri Sd^^Hssr 1 ^ tsar- 1 .** 
do a KoBea on^w en^ ^ ^ time I hit the hay. 
k M>. thfalu^c^t and SHhc™- 
L1r/t r 
jthe 3 of ° n ° rk3 ?tot I band and bleed, giving us 
comvfc# 1 find, j sDQcios • All 
a snail series of blood from ““£" s ^ebLds, bt c, 
results haveen't been a y that are going 
but it looks as though all the xaysans u 
to hatch havd done so. a v A ma d many birds 
Activity - KB® bul j din ? 1 ?'L for twigs at the Tribulus 
W aL" Ihe SS' 
are^great^ pirates, Stealing twigs from one-anothers bills 
