P. DeBeauchamp 1465 Journal - 34 10 June Meadle River Cool Mine, 15°25'W, 70°24'N, Alaska loon calling from the area to the south. A couple of pectrals and several phalaropes the only shorebirds noted, plus a golden plover. 6 (3?) Steeler's Eider & flown by about 18:30. dull day on the whole. 11 June Went out to shoot 1/2 of the cottage (out the creek went and I can't get across now! Went 5 along south ridge and in the lakes basin in stead, but it was a waste of time. I went along the rivers to South creek, then along the ridge two miles, and back to the river nine or less directly. Total birds seen - 1/2 golden, 1/2 Black-belly Plover (ridge), 3(5?) dunlin (near cormorant plot); 4/2 Semipalm (corm plot - 2, lake bottom E of South ridge, 2), 15 Pectoral Sandpiper - mostly lake bottom - lots mole clayey; 10 W. Phalarope, 50 Red Phalarope. One West. Sandpiper in flight, singing. Longspurs are common - got only a dunlin bird shot at a 4 pectoral and a Black belly Plover - saw only 3-4 stonebirds feeding except the phalaropes. Really slow. Found a longspur nest. The Wagtail hasn't done much to this nest? abandoned, but she is still around. Saw some ? que exp. behavior. lots of color variation in both sexes of this species. No geese up yet to any extent. This found plant cropping near the mine. Stayed in the afternoon skimming the dunlin and cormorant this evening. Put up another dunlin, and salvaged the birds I shot earlier. June 8 birds were 5-7 days from hatching.