Alaska Catalogue and Journal, v4423
Page 279
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Journal -21 2 June Meade River Coal Mine, 15°025'W, 70°24'W, Alaska one row of stakes to go! On the way over I saw 2 Stilts and a P landed on the plot, and a Long-tail Jaeger together. Still a White crowned Sparrow here and there was 3-4 P pectoralis and 2-3 dunlin and a Semipalm in the area about 8:30. About 10:30 there were 6 dunlin and 29 pectoralis, and 2 dark Parasitic Jaegers, a Sabine Gull, and 2 Red Phalaropes flew over. Birds not to active. Only 2 plavers here, but saw Black-belly in flight and several displaying over the dunes on the oxbows of the Nleaclo. Still clear and calm, as all day, but cool at night. wrote notes and went to bed about 2400; shortly before saw a flock of 25+ eider (? q) and 6-8 shorebirds going east with them. Later a lone plaver went west and a Sabine Gull went the other way. 3 June Slept until 10 and went to the creek once the flats below the village from 11 to 1 today. It was clear until the morning, but then became foggy and windy for most of the day. Cool. Not much flying about but some birds came in. There were few birds along the creek - 2 dunlin, 2 plavers and a pectoral, but there were several dunlin and turnstones by the village. A Slate-colored Jaeger along the creek. The Wagtail is already remated. The birds around the village are feeding