Virtz 
1963 
4 
W. Feb. 
ATF 
Tagg no. 
- 40 - 
55 broken in application end removed from edult female with 
no. 5^» be then got into the water before I could get out '-nother tag. A 
small (50- 5) snlmal was scared of’ here also. 
There is a large open sand beach .uat befo a the SE corner, with 
a large bowl-sh. ped pocket ■ xt nding into the : ivola. There were many 
albatross nest ng here, with a visual oredorinance of black-foots. There 
was a large mixed flock of shoro birds on this each as we soproeched. 
Probably 200+ ruddj turaatones, oerha is 75 to 100 golden olovers and 
8 or 10 sanderlings. 
Tag no. 57 broke end was discarded, eleven sanderlings lit in 
front of us while I was ap lying this tag. 
Six other seals were scared off sandy point at SE corner while 
we were tagging no. 64. 
Six moi-e seals were seen while moving of ■ the western edg8 of the 
s ndy point at the SE corner, and a large adult nr le was noted on 
the beach just past the point. It bad a prominent scar on the lower left 
side about 18 inches long; time of observation 1350. 
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The south sire has a very s' ort beach and the sea mpears to be 
cutting back into the island. over the 5 foot cliff here is an open 
grassy ares where the albatross are nesting* Visually there are about oqual 
numbers of Laysons and b.1 ack—footed Albatr.. ss. Just west of this 
open area is the crest of a dune running north-south, perhaps 20 feet high* 
watched on adult seal here crawl over a booby neat containing 
two eggs, I examined the eggs after it had passed, and they were neither 
broken nor cracked, ft this point wo scared off e large • dult, also a 
yearling female and an adult female, and were- not able to tag any of them. 
The beech along the south si e is co 'posed of fine sand, which is 
