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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