Alaska Catalogue and Journal, v4423
Page 285
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P. DeBenedictis 1965 4 June Mlade River Cool Mine, 157°25'W, 70°29'N, Alaska When I arrived at the AF Wannigan. There was an Arctic Tern along the river. Few birds along the lower part of the creek but 2 pairs golden plover, 2 pectoral sandpipers and 1 pair dunlin and a couple of semipalmateds. There was a strange song coming from W of the village which turned out to be Western Sandpiper, and the juncos were still along the creek. There were semipalmateds, clunshus and pectorals in the cattail marsh behind the village and two trees in the village. Pintails active on the village plots plus a few pectorals, dunlins and semipalmateds. The dunlins were mostly up in the marshes, the pectorals in the marshes and not polytypic, and the semipalmateds distributed areas. A Redpoll came into camp and there were two white-crowned and a Fox Sparrow then Walker and Red Phalaropes both flying about and possibly 8 Beds are now in the area. A couple of Sahis Bells came through camp about noon. Slept most of the afternoon and past 6 so it could stay up all night. About 11 P.M. got up and sat around until midnight; 5 June when I started out for the "census" plot. A white-crowned Sparrow was singing by the cool mine and continued singing until 8 P.M. off and on, and another song from 2 miles down on the far side of the river. A little longhorn activity but most are asleep and most of the shorebirds I saw were sleeping apparently so until about a quarter of 2. A group of geese flew over, but little activity. About 2 P.M. everything woke up