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R. DeBenelli
1965
13 June
Barrow, Alaska
in territorial display, and little feeding was seen.
In the afternoon Bob Hamilton and I walked aret along
the W side Family hogoon about ½ way to the
VOTH area. There were good number of shorebirds
present, including Bairds, Pelecanus, and
White-crowned which weren't present yesterday
and a Tree Sparrow in place of the juncos.
There was considerable exposed tundra and
many puddles of ice water as well as water
in the troughs. Saw a number of lemmings
in the area. It was wind and rain
in the late afternoon; didn't go out in the evening,
at all. May have seen a sanddollar in the morning.
14 June
Spent the AM at ARL writing notes + processing
lemmings. Saw 5 Tojagers. In the afternoon
Dr. Pitelka + I went checking on snowy Owl
meet in this area along Elson hogoon to
the area S of Ukpik Slough. It was cold and
overcast and quite windy; there was little
activity except for lemmings and jocgers
throughout most of the area except on the highlands along
Elson hogoon and the sloughs, where there was
extensive exposed Tundra. Lemmings were
numerous throughout the area, and I saw more
than in the previous walk here; Dr. Pitelka stepped
on one. The shorebirds were noisy but saw little
clear courtship behavior; there were large #s of