SCHREIBER 
CHRISTMAS ISLAND 
LO May. 1 
Excitement this morning. A jap fisherman cut his 
leg off ao s ut 100 miles of shore and came in here 
to be rescued. CAlls on the roadio brought a 
V 'Coast Guard 130 with doctor to the rescue. It is 
good to know that it is possible to be saved if 
something happens. Spent the afternoon fixing my 
faft. It took me abut two hours to xpEx spin down 
the 16 blood samples, why are some of them so milkyS 
and others yellow? the red ones have hemolized. 
this time to get all recodrs straight. Tried to 
use the motor boat of Tabi but the hot water pump 
not working so that cant be used. It would hae 
been a help but the boat is too clumsey. Just did 
not feel like doing anything at night... 
Sooty Tern: the colony along the main road betwee 
here and london is up in the air again after 
beging on the ground yesterday. 
11 May. 
Spent the afternoon visiting four islands in 
^tanulu Lagoon. These are the first ones that have 
fiad any number of Blue gray noddy nesting on them, 
it looks like it will be fruitufl to spend some_ 9 
more time on these islets. I really wish that i 
knew how much i was expected to do. For that matt< 
r i wish that i knew more about what i was doing 
or had someone to talk with. 1 am just so damn la. 
y that i do the bare minimum that i think is exped 
ed of me. Why????? 
Sooty Tern: visitied the colony along the road 
to london at an hour before sunset to sunset and 
the flock now extends between just west of the 
water hole to beyond the PMR site, or some 2.5 mil 
s. Birds quite high* in the air and pair flying 
common and some tentative approaches toward the 
ground but most ly in the air., just flying around. 
Brwon booby: saw two adult flying as if pair 
chasing, am sure of this,over the manulu lagoon, 
also one individula along adult faring over lagoon. 
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SCHREIBER 
CHRISTMAS 
May. Spent the afternoon on the is lend, or ta rather 
two islands connected at low tide, which are just 
across the channel from the swimmitng area. See 
species accounts and island desc. for deatils. 
Was going back but it rained hard inthe evening so 
sat around and talked 
9 0 0 
May. Took pictures on above island during the af tern 
oon and then waidEdxtEX waded to Hack island which 
is just to the notheast, aid at a low tide would 
be almost connected. Took the raft and got back 
to the dock in ©ome ten minutes with the tide, if 
it had been going the other direction doufet if i 
would have made it... In the evening after forget 
ting my notebook, when across the channel, and the 
having forgotten flohe blood vacutainers, banded arid 
looked around for sereral hours on sw;mming islets 
j 
May 
Spent the afternoon driving around the island 
near the lagoon area looking for passages through 
the water and could not find any. In the evening 
went to swimming islet and bled 16 GF and banded 
12 more. Most of the chicks and adults of the 
night before were sitting on their nests again. 
While on theohter side of the island my head lamp 
went out and i had to stumble back to thr raft. 
Luckly venus was bright and i could find my way a 
little. Also stuck myself with a blood needle 
when it fell out of my poscket into my arm and a 
Gf bit me quite badky on the left thumb... Then 
coming across the bay, i riped a hole in the raft, 
luckly just the bottom and not the air part. So 
by the time i got back had the raft full of water 
and the tide caught me and i was blown about 100 
yards of course. Tehn on the way back to camp the.* 
rover had its first flat tire... B^-d night and 
glad to be back... 
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