P. DeBeere deLily 1966 Torned 10 August Meade River Coal Mine, 157°25' W, 70°37' N, Alaska Cayer washer is on the wedge-grown sphagnum delta between the marshes. They often were along colour I flushed them, and when so, they would get up calling "creeet" overhead over, until one or more other birds would get up and fly along with them, all of the birds calling needlessly loudly. These small groups usually stayed up two or 3 minutes, and then landed nearer less together in the marshes. They only kept their heads above the cayer when I was driving them, due to the wind, and I saw none feeding. There were at least 3 dunlin young here, all seen (not feeding) on the sphagnum delta between the marshes. They were as shy as the adults here earlier in the season. There were at least 2 Northern Phalaropes, none of which I could chick in plumage, and 15-20 juvenile Red Phalaropes; usually flushed from the teal cairn at the edge of pools with 2-3 inches (or more) of water in them. They would get up to fly about calling noisily like the peatals but seldom gathered in groups. The most I saw together was 4, flushed as 4 from the ground, compared to 7 peatals at one time; slender, mostly too birds. There were few land birds. Only longspurs were seen in the marsh as usual, all in winter or juvenile plumage.