or can not hsve whoa doing the "bird study. I also don't know why the 
original four of us don't have security clearance if its as necessary 
as Bushman indicates, and we can have our collection of data fouled 
up by someoneelse from UDTC. 
We have had a slight increase in bird records picked up birds 
with the light egsin tonight also, though we got only a fleaking glimpse 
wfc may have had a storms petrel at one time. The wind died down about 
dusk and several smell rein clouds moved though the till about 
2200 creating a very dark night before the moon came up perhaps this 
perfected bird movements somewhat. 
Day 8 
Weather todey was wavV 1 and clear with a gental breeze from the 
southeast, there was scattered cloud cover all day but no rain the sea 
was from the east with swells of 5 to 10 feet during the day. 
We collected two Red tailed Tropicbirds this morning immature* 
and missed three others during the day also missed one petrel. We have 
had almost no oppurtunity to collect the majority of the birds we have 
seen as they have been several hundred yards away. Yesterday we saved 
garbage all day, dumped it about 1B00 end circled back through it, but 
saw only on. Shearwater. We are getting many interesting records of 
sped ©a either not report or reported as rare for this re^enx hat 
need the specimens for verifications on these unusual sitein#s« 
This afternoon we tried chasing a flock of 60 to 70 laedin# 
terns, and shearwaters with the ship zlgg&glng wildly over the study 
area but were never able to catch up to them to morrow we will try 
going after they in the whale If we sited flock provided the weather 
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