Journal - 20 2 June Meade River Coal Mine, 152°25'W, 70°29'N, Atchison since the moss is cleared, these species prefer more areas for feeding. I have the impression now that grass lit. water will. difference so long as birds can get to the moss below & steel lower a good view overhead. Spent the afternoon preparing skeletons of the birds I have obtained earlier and skinning the Herkpoll - this was c. 2 to 5 P.M. Saw a few plover and peatral through camp during this period, and a Purgin fulcan nearly hit my head while I was cleaning a Flamingo - it was clearly "peep". The period before dinner, I spent along the village creek trying to connect with a flock of dunlin. I got a peatral which was feeding actively and saw 3 redpolls on the ground, but the gun misfired (otherwise I should have had all of them). They are not impressively unlike Dubies at Fairbanks; one was red, but one had a very pale strip. When I came back a wagtail flew by and I squeaked and it landed near me. I fired as it took off and hit the little bastard in its wrig - got one at last! - a pre-breeding. Spent a while trying for the male without being able to get off a shot. Saw a few dunlin and peatral, 2 Semipals and at least 8 Tewds, near the village. After dinner skeletonized the Wagtail and went to finish (almost) the course