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in the afternoon and did paper word• •fe worked with j 
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Wu»r> T -.rq s wondering f round the dll island UMd I 1 
I s&eped on a noddy nests in which the egg was ’just 
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Thera are orWv four v/edp*©-*tailed Shearwaters 
left in the bunker out of JO eg~s , i 
TVo arro ^ f•'e j the 2 T T'"’ chicks sn»n sh 
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that had been out of the freesed for too long and l 
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of the olders chick and the youngest I threw in the < 
ocean because of the swell and I could noc see gevcing 
mv Tillv white hands dxr u v« I 
^ I did micro-climate f/ork on the differet areas 
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Several obervations could be bade: (!)• There is a 
hard core of some sort under the sun ace wnich seems 
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the core in on the surf :.ce and there are no burrows | 
and I could not even dig through the core* The core j 
seems to he caused by the caching of course sand ana 
soil. In a.-eas I could not find the core at J fee t aw | 
-an — otner areas —erre— r-orr.‘ —‘.-vs—rt—:-e‘:*e'i—uu *-- 
Where ever this core vr-s i could not push the wire© 
foot probe doves through the core, tr.is could u r ^h 
i ndscats on of how deco the core vac from the surface# 
(2)It has rained about an inch the night before so the 
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tom. of the air was higher than the surface temper tur 
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—?Tnc!—he sui*?a't'e“ ours was hiuhyu thau at; c.c'.uu.' 
at £> inchsr. the term, at one .foot was higher thin 
at 6 inches and the term, at 2 foot was higher than 
at 1 fnnt.ThrAs foot vaV hoter yet. i 
