into a wind from the east during an affective wind velocity of 20 to 25 
note, the weather was cooler largerly due to the wind and the sky m s 
over cast much of the day with scattered squalls. 
We recorded from sun rise to sun set only today and will he the 
plsn for the remainder of the trip. Night observations are not satistically 
valid as they prove only one thing - that certain species are active at 
ni#$it. As we are limitted in visibility though the ehort range of our 
lights and the chance straying of birds Into there beams. There is 
no way of deriving from this night time data any valid cencus of total 
bird activity at night, as we are able to do in the daytime with much 
more thorough censuslng. 
Only 20 birds in 17 siteings recorded today the lowest count we have 
had yet this trip. Discounting one Bed tailed Tropicbird all records were 
of wedged tailed shearwaters or sootylterns no flocks were noted. 
Day 14 
We continued steaming on course 080degrees today with the wind 
remaining from the east with an effective velocity of 15 to 20 nots, 
the sky this A.M. was cheifly over casted and we ran through one good 
serrie® of squalls before noon. This P.M. the sky cleared somewhet 
and the afternoon we® much warmer. 
The watch was maintained through all the light hours with a 
fairly low recording of wedge tails end sooty terns or merely tern 
flocks at too great a distance to identify species, and a few tropic- 
birds. We have no collecting the p>st two d*ys. - 
Pat and Bob have been very busy attenoti a" to correlate siteihg records 
with weather data and annalizing our siteing records by species. 
