P. De Beerschill 1966 Journal -27 June 6 Meade River, Cordova, Alaska, 157°25'W, 70°29'N, There was a pair of Western Sandpipers feeding with the semipalmated sandpiper on the dirt road through the village. Shot first and very low hit that; another male singing (The birds behind camp were later). A few oldsquaws going over. The river is very wet now and a large group of glaucous gulls congregated here and several groups of Sabine's Gulls going over most of the A.M., plus a few terns. I stayed out to about 11:30, then chased some birds out and spent the afternoon putting them up. A few jaegers in the evening, but nothing exciting. Foggy and very windy. Temporal and west. Sandpipers feeding along the edge of the melt pools behind camp all day long, and a few phalaropes are down on the ground now. Longspurs understandably quiet today. As of 3 days ago, dowitchers are some miles from nesting. June 7 More cummy weather. got up late and didn't get out until the afternoon. Went behind camp, to Kinchak Lake, the village ridge & flats and back to camp. Out about 4 miles from 2 P.M. It remained very windy and snow-bailed much of the late afternoon and evening. The wind was blowing so hard that the birds got down in the high grass and I couldn't see what they were doing. Birds are rather concentrated locally, except longspurs. Near camp saw phalaropes, dunlin, pectoral and semipalmated (flushed) a pair of Spectacled Eiders. There is little on the far side of the lake basin and only a few birds are moving into the lake basin as it opens up.