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If weather Is to be taken the whole process takes an hour. If 
not, around 50 minutes. 
March 2^ — A slow day. Eleven birds in all. Black-footed Albatross 
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again with us all day, two car three of them all the time. Tried to 
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catch them on hook baited with balogna but they seemed to be able to 
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d iscrimlnate between hooked pieces and nan-hooked ones . They swam to 
within 15 to 20 feet of the stern of the ship during a hydro station. 
At 1150 Dave Au saw a Harcourt's Storm Petrel, type unsure, but it was 
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the first bird of the day. At 1245 a Sooty Shear, the only of the day 
and 1520 alone Frlgotebird making circles in the sky. Around 1740 a 
group of three Shearwater/ petrels came by close to the ship, all of 
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which were seen by the watch but not by we. Blindness at my age,. 
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A tropiebird finished off the day. Too far to tell species. Tonight 
Mh start a variability *one, which means B.T.*e every 50 minutes until 
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tomorrow afternoon. The trip would be <pite enjoyable without the 
added B.T. cast committment but at least Bob and I can speak about them 
from experience 
March 25 — Bo Black-footed Albatross present at dawn this morning. One 
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appeared at 0745, flew around the ship a few times, sat in the water 1 
while as the ship took a hydro station, than departed about 10 minutes 
later. No mere ever seen the rest of the day. Wedgetails increased 
today; one group of f our, one of which was dark phase, was seen heading 
north x At 0922 Sundell and King both saw a sharebird which we concluded 
was a Fhalarope sp. although species identification was impossible due 
to distance. Sundell wrote "75 yards off starboard (at nearest point - 
not seen until ttaewhat later); seen on water three different times between 
