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P. De Benedetti
1966
Journal
26 June. Neacole River Coal Mine, 15°02'5"W, 70°03'4"N, Hum
west still with three eggs and the Whalers.
Sparrow still incubating. A slight drizzle in the
evening. Rodger Bempard got a ♂ Microtus
occotomus from the boys in the village today,
a 59 gm. ♂ with testes 846 mm, epiphyllum -.
1 July. In the morning I went to the village dunes
to see if the shorebirds were up on the sand &
then eating mosquitoes as by the census plot.
The weather was overcast and windy, and
there was little mosquito action until about 11:30.
There was little activity near the village, not
surprisingly since there are about 15 people
there now. On the disturbed areas near the
village many old flowers out, and the dunes
were alive with Diapensia, Arenavitz and Potentilla
and totally dead. Bird-wise - One golden
crane in the cereal area near hutetionakewk.
There was a little semipal activity on the village
plots, but not much feeding activity; the few
birds I saw were out of sight in the willows.
One Spectral doing mosquitoes in a Caves pool
like a semipal. There were half a dozen old polio in
the willows and a pair of Savannah Sparrows carrying
food, dipping briskly in our area, but not going
to a nest. Flusca at Ptarmigan from a 12-egg
nest. Lots of Longspurs but I didn't see any nests.
In all, very quiet. Spent the afternoon trying to decide