DB Post Tuesday March 4th

Irma @ Diamond Head, 4DJ (T21M)@ EB, et.al., 3-4-08
The Rabbit Island crew was Buster, Temp 403, and Benny. Colleen Heyer called to report Irma at Diamond Head near the "grafitti bunker" . She got her cordoned off. Thank you........very much.

Colleen was not the only hero of the day. Mary Jay called at 0945 to report that she and Mary Frances had an animal on the beach at Onelua Place, in Ewa Beach. Mary Frances offered some interesting possibilites as to the ID. When I arrived at 1112, I confirmed that it was 4DJ (T21M), an adult male. His major marker is a very noticable natural bleach spot on his forehead, above the right eye. He also has the nub of an old brown tag on his right hind flipper, but it just a small piece and very difficult to see. He appeared to be newly molted. Records show that he molts around January.

4DJ was first observed in 1987 on Laysan. He was already an adult, so he is a minimum of 26 y.o. . He was one of the translocatees in 1994, and was taken to Molokai. His first Oahu sighting was 3-4- 2004, in Ewa Beach. I first encountered him at Sandy Beach on 3-28-04, and then on 11-18/19-2004 at the west end of Hanauma Bay.

He got his N8 bleach on 2-9-06. He was sighted back on Molokai , 7-5-06, and was see from March through June of 2007 at Diamond Head (in front of Colleen's house), Ewa Beach, Iroquois Point, Ka'ena Pt. , Maili , and Paradise Cove. The Ka'ena Pt sighting by Karen Harris on 6-24-07 , was the last time he was seen , until today. Aloha, DB