P. De Benedictis 1966 Journal - 22 3 June Nleade River Coal Mine, 157°25'W, 70°24'N, Alaska in the disturbed area where the dogs have been kept, and in the mossy polygon ridges which are becoming exposed. A long-tail Jaeger here, and the local parroties were absent. The flats were very good - two+ pairs of dowltellers, 3-4 peatral (including two in a fight) and several dunnlin and semipalo; the peatrab and dowltellers feed in the polygon pools, which have broken ice bottoms alternating with mud, and the semipalo and dunnlin and gobleu plume feed on high polygons and along the ridges. Saw one and heard 1-2 Arctic Terns and a Northern Phalarope flyover. Only the dunnlin were making much noise. Lrg, dowltellers, ternisters, and semipalo sandpipers, all appear to be paired. A few Savannah Sparrow visiting and more long-popu noise than yesterday. Saw both wogtail well after I came out of mittel and one White-cin Sparrow between AF Wannigan and camp. One dunnlin in camp. Several pintail in its flats near the village. Stayed in camp during the afternoon and slept a little. Wound out towards the creek S of camp from 8 to 11 PM, putting fluep on some of the stakes of the "couscas plot." There was little above, and the fog still present - visibility only 1/4 mile and par at 100 meters. There were little active dunnlin were scattered over the area, including a group of 5 birds, some of which may have been