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We met Capt. G. ¥. Davis V, the new Co. He is very nive and quite helpful. 
OAlso met Lead. Frye, the new security officer. Got passes for Eastern 
Island, one bicycle. Boxes ordered and bird clearances have not come 
thru. 
Laysan albatrosses- chicks are beginning to fledge they are huge and actually 
deminish in size as feathers replace down. 
Red-taled tropiebirds very numerous nesting everywhere most on eggs. 
Fairy terns - downy chicks on branches some still on eggs. 
Haw. noddies, have net seen into nests as yet. Saw a number of noddies 
feeding on the surface of the lagoon they dro° doen to the surface and 
feed after landing. Remained on water about ten minutes even after feeding 
stopped some even were bathing. Also a number were resting on the bare sard 
of the bathing beach. Brown noddies-none yet 
Sooty terns - small numbers over lagoon. 
Grey-backed terns- several 
Frigates birds one y- over lagoon. 
Golden plover- 1 
Ruddy turastone- several singles and a pair u/l shorebirds- flocks of 15 +. 
Bonin Island Petrel - very few on surface, nono coming in at dusk. 
Wandering tattler- several 
Waited for duck on Officers Beach. Saw only one Bonin Island petrel over lagoon 
Laysan albatrosses were cruising up and down beach quite activily. Very 
few black-foots. Fairy tern and Haw. noddiees fishing until dark quite 
numerous. Sooty tern were crossing lagoon, all headed far East eren Island. 
Wandering tattlers feeding at water's edge also turnstones. 
Looked for petrels and shearwaters again at 2200. Very few petresl no shear¬ 
waters . 
Weather is warm, very humid, rain showers. 
