with no apparent cause, she flew, screaming to the iche at the edge of the green flats — no more than a 15 yd. flight. There she fed happily for a while and then started down the aslepisia (?) and turned up the first gulley on the right. We marked the place she disappeared and will look there tomorrow. March #5 Some ice and snow on the ground in the morning, but not enough for tracking. I sat up the hill behind “Insey” in a crowd and watched the green flats across the rino. Heard some piping when the sun first arrived on the hill (I sat from 6-7:30) but saw no birds. About 11:30 Papie and I went up to nest #1. He took a picture of the bird who was sitting on the nest, and I crept into the blind. As soon as Papie was out of sight some “piping” started about 100 yds. uphill from the nest, and was answered by piping from the nest. After some 15 minutes or more of this, in which the uphill piping moved about a bit, the piping stopped and before long I saw on the ridge above the nest, and about 40 yds. from the nest, a male bird walking uphill. When I ducked behind a grass clump, I changed position in the blind and he must have seen me for he came out with his head bobbing back &