Alaska Catalogue and Journal, v4402
Page 377
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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