P. De Benedictis 1965 24 1 July Barrow, Alaska called "Bairds West 2" - this proved to my dismay to be a Semipalm. West and is noted in all above entries. One of the Semipalms (12) was out near west 11 and 13 is out near the Pectoral West - No.1 14="Bairds West 2". I would have been ok. if I had gone just ten feet further! It was very quiet, almost nothing displaying, and very little activity. The long-tails + Parasitics seen today were quite vocal. 2 July Went out to Pitella's plot to walk transects, which proved to be pretty good. I got off at the end of his plot and walked to lines IV+VIII which I "covered", demarcating the border of Central Marsh to lines VII+VIII which were also covered. It was windy, from the W, and clear becoming cloudy with occ. rain in the afternoon, and everywhere very quiet. The marsh is beginning to drain so that the rim is almost dry now, and Holmes's Marsh does not look as picturesque as it did last time I was out here. There was, as usual almost nothing on the Ridge and the only part of Holmes's Marsh that really had many birds in it was the South part by the CREEK shack; here mostly Red Phalaropes, Pectorals + Golden Plovers; keep very inconspicuous. The small "pup" were still concentrated along the rim of Central Marsh but I saw 2 Westerns well into the marsh and in the center there were no longer flocks of shorebirds but still quite a few? non-breeding