P. DeBenedictis 1965 Stercorarius pomarinus 22 July Barrow, Alaska - three feet away and avoided the jaegers without much trouble. The act was quite effective as the jaegers took off then & as soon as they saw her, even leaving me alone. Broth huddled where I guessed several semipal chicks to be in the VOHH area and the adult semipals would fly noisily to about 6 feet from the jaeger and run off giving a mixture of the "cheek" and trill calls, very loud. As these semipals never doing this the jaeger was constantly wobbling the adults and found no young (more based any pusillus adults.) It (the jaeger) eventually got up and (wound) about 30 feet away, where the semipals also quieted down. 23 July Saw lone chicks at the nest on the weasel road to USC+GS and at the end of LINE III, and all others in this area appear to have chickled young. No pairs missing. The young move quite far from the nest. The pair of the nest at the 100 foot of LINE III were quite mean; the J struck me 4 times, the 1st time so hard that it appeared to injure itself, for there was blood on my parka and on the jaeger's flank. When they bonk you, the BONK you! 24 July. One nest along the gasewell road missing but two pairs present & the others with eggs in the VOHH area. The nest near the forks in VOHH creek three empty, shells near by, as the next street inland, the pairs