Hoeman, J. Vincent, 1964
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Hoeman, J. V. 1964--Aleutians 14 "NOME" (another 1944 "CAPE" down for point of limey rock to e.) Returning we see a pair of red-breasted mergansers, another kittiwake, and what I suspect might have been a pr. of rosy finches. We return car, after collecting the set of golden plover eggs and photographing parents, and I check my fox sparrow nest, 4 e. The golden plover eggs were fresh. June 12, 1964 Skip breakfast to make a walk this morning and find robin nest. 3 e on rafter of abn'd. house as I leave town--? not only bit my finger but wouldn't leave eggs till I pried beneath her! I go across old wooded "US Gov't. Use at Yr. own risk" suspension bridge, try in vain to find nest of scolding wagtails, and walk way out beyond a dead dredge west of the airport but see no new birds and find no more nests till returning I find 2 common redpoll (I assume by loose construction--fairly white-rumped) 3 and 5 eggs and yellow warbler nest under construction, all 3 in willows. Carry my plover eggs in bnoes case to keep them whole as we take cab to airport but wait over 2 hours for our DC 3 to finally depart. See Rex Thomas taking his polar bear and walrus heads he traded tobacco for out and a boy about 8 says "My dad works on birds too!" Turns out he's West and we talk to his mother (slight, dark-haired, interested) there too. They're on one of these Arctic Tours with her folks. So we fly over Bering Sea and it's clear. At 1500' we can easily pick out walruses and seals on the edge- of the ice--the tusks of the former gleam in the sun! Icepans all different--many birds. At 1425 Ber. Sea Time I first sight St. Lawrence Is. and some 20