P. De Benedis 1966 Journal 13 August Headle River Coal Mine (57°25'W, 70°27'N), Alan whice was nice though not spectacular. 14 August Today the wind almost stopped. I decided to celbrate by hiking, and taking the last few photos of the year - I went south along the Headle River to South ridge, followed it until I hit the Headle again, along the Headle to the 0° bow dunes, and cross-culty, to camp, about 10 miles in all, and hiked from 9 am to 5.30 pm. Whoo! As usual there was wills along the river - a wagtail flying over and 1-2 longspurs. Near the mouth of South creek I flushed a peotral and later 3 were from near the source in the drained lake basin where it was nearly. There were only scattered winter plumage longspurs in the ridge, except 1 golden clover and 1 Black-belly, which flew into a nearby acree when I got near, and a peotral which flushed from a camp pool acree on the ridge. No jessicus, which was surprising. A group of 8-9 Northern Phalacrocorax flew over, but did not land. When I dipped in to the lake basin to the south I occasionally ran into small (3 to 6) groups of Peotrali, which were not otherwise obvious, and heard 1 Drowitile and one Black-belly Plover. The peotrali