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Beaver
1967
Alaska
Journal 18
22 June (cont)
Sample #7. It swelled tightly during the
afternoon and was cold.
1900 Steve, Tom and I constructed a bow net trap
to catch longspurs and possibly shore birds on
the nest. The trap consisted of the following.
[diagram]
We took the trap out to the drum area and
set up a dummy ♂ and tried to catch
males coming to the dummy, but we had no
luck. So, we set the trap on a nest and
catched the ♀ which we banded and color
banded and then released. We then
proceeded to catch another ♀ and band her
in the same manner. Then I came in
to wash clothes and shower. Turned in at
2430.
23 June Worked on some more soil samples (see chapter
0800 study) and also removed the samples from
the Burland funnel and made preparations for
collecting 16 more samples, #21 through
30 this afternoon.
1330 Steve M., Tom C. and I left in the