: -.’irta . Villiam 0. 33 
1963— At Sea 
August 5 * ’ ' ' v *. 
The wind increased considerably from the southeast early this 
morning and it is now blowing: at IB to 20 ' note. It remained strong" most 
of the day. The sea is choppy end there are many white caps. There have 
been scattered clouds all day; some of them with rad n. The ship has been 
rolling- 5 to 10 degrees. It has become increasingly difficult to hold the 
binoculars steady with the rolling of the ship and the buffeting of the 
wind. The rougher weether today may possibly account for the paucity of 
bird records for the day, although it is likely that position may also 
have its effect. 
At 0700 this morning a group of three Sooty Terns passed over the 
ship heeded east and flying at about 100 ft. One hd a bright orange leg 
band on which was easily visible to the naked eye. At this time we were 
53 miles S3? of Johnston Island. 
We started e 24 hour watch today with only one man on for the 2000- 
24 r K), 0-0300 end 0300-0600 watches. e will use spotlights at night. 
The crew has been alerted to our plans for collecting birds, and we 
hope to begin tomorrow morning. 
The captain told ©e that the whaleboat could run for about 180 ©lies 
without refueling end that it would be possible to leave it over for a 
few hours if we run into some good flocks of birds. 
-he night watch tonight saw very few birds even though the weather 
was quite ood. I might therefore suspect that locality i 
in bird concentrations and not necessarily weather* presumably ..food is 
a deciding factor in determining locality of concentrations^ 
