Ludvig, James P. 53 
19S3 
December l4--Ittrained until 3 p*n* today so stayed in working on the 
report oultines and digesting the long letter from Bill. The news seems 
generally good, but D. C. apparently is yet a bit confused. Well, it 
all will be fixed soon 1 . 
When the rain quit vent to the overrun and sav: 
7 Sharp-tails 
2 Shoveller 
18 Sanderling 
2 Widgeon 
k Tattler 
1 Pintail 
k Grey-winged Teal 
5 Oh* Plover 
50+ Turnstones 
After dinner caught up on paper work and worked some more onethe 
report outline and rough draft of parts of it. Then went Petrel banding 
getting 107 and 23 recoveries. 
many appeared to be paired. Other than fighting there seems to be 
little displaying in these birds. All are digging burrows. People have 
been killing lots of them—counted 58 dead birds around Hartley Field 
and the CPO club, many with heads twisted off. Surviving birds are 
very wary. In bed by 1 a.m. 
December 15 --Slept in today and then filled out the Band recovery forms 
and itemized the Petrel recoveries (fifty-five in December) sotthat I won T t 
be duplicating effort. Before we started this year Chan Bobbin had managed 
to tag about 20 percent of this population: with our efforts, it should 
be close to 30 percent now. 
Caught plane to Kure at 1^00 to get MCBEE cards from Roger, take Bill T s 
letter and have a chat with him. Spent an hour talking over the changes 
to him and speaking to J 0 e. We stayed for dinner and then caught the 
