D. DeBreed: 5 1965 37 12 July Barrens, Alaska wet, and a piped egg. Spent the evening watching the beach for ~1 h; seen 1 old squaw, loons and 2 Sabine's Gulls. A cold, drizzly day. 13 July Got up early and went out with Hamilton to help pick up lines I & II. It was foggy and windy. We saw a large flack of Common Eider on the way out but very little around the mark; the juncos are flocked up again a group of 60 so were fighting about something on the ground. No birds along the trip lines. In the afternoon went to the Voth area to walk transects and checked a few nests. There were few birds present except for nesting individual, even in VOTH strong. The vegetation at the latter spot has changed markedly from the last time I was here, grown up considerably. The creek is now a series of pools & looks awful. There were only a few Phalaropes, almost no 4's, around and the Dowitchers were gone - a number of 7 Peckrals were in the area. The golden plover nest near IIB was empty and no birds were about. On the way in I noted 4 Dunlins which acted very concerned about my presence and search eventually produced 8 chicks. In the evening went out to the lines with Hamilton again - no change from before: no eiders. The ice only lead was almost entirely worked out during the afternoon and there are hundreds of Hesperias off the shore now, and a few Steller's Eiders.