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Cade
1958
General Account
Weather mostly all day.
on the Colville delta to spend a week at
Barrow looking at Steller's giders.
He reported looking into a few lemming
rests in the delta area and finding some
with the remains of dead lemmings inside.
There is one nest of Parasitic Jaegers
in his area also, but he has seen
no live lemmings. An interesting new
record of his is a specimen of Davis'
Sparrow. Also he has found Green-
winged Teal nesting in the delta.
6 July
- Went out with Brock and Myres at
1300. First we saw the traplines T34,
B and looked over the ground where the
other trappers were located in the Voth
area. Then back through camp and out
over Beach Ridge, through Central
Marsh along Wolschlag Slough, then
north toward the gas well and back
along the gas line. Returned at 1600.
A conspicuous clutch of birds was evident
by comparison with our encounters
in these areas prior to our trip to the
Meade. On this three hour drive we
saw not one Pectoral Sandpiper, not
one Bolder Plover, and not one
Townstone. The former two were previously