P. DeBenedictis 1965 16 June Barrow, Alaska this am went out to Beach Ridge with D. J. Mullen; the wind still blows from the E with some light snow flurries; the wind is warm. Snow fell during the night have drifted over most of the low tundra exposed even yesterday afternoon. There was little longspur activity, and in the Barrow area and the jays were all but nil. Saw only 2 birds on the way out and in Central Marsh the high #s of the previous days were present but sitting except for a few along the ridge; almost no shorebirds, humming all over hell.' From about 2:30 to 5 PM out along the SE end of the Beach Ridge and along the N shore Wohlschlag Slough. It was still winds and snowed heavily on several occasions. Hummingbirds are as abundant a more so here than elsewhere, and thus were small #s of shorebirds along the shore of Wohlschlag. Tarecs somewhat more active in this area. I estimate the recent snow has reduced the exposed tundra to 7/3 to the amount exposed on June 14. The dunlin and an occasional longspur began to clurb it was summer and sang a little and - the Coleen Plavers are getting a little more aggressive. The new snow is quite soft and there is mud water beneath; when (if) I warm up things, were moistest get up rapidly.