Alaska field notes, v4411
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Windfall Harbor Admiralty Island, Alaska April 17 - May 19 We arrived here April 17 about noon. The snow is still lying thick on the mountains and extend clear down to the beach. It is from 4 to 6 ft. deep on the level and the only place you can go is along the beach at low tide or in the boat. Spruce and fir form the most of the timber and there is a fringe of alders all along the shore. Nothing is leafing out at all yet. The matuis day that the season is behind time about a month. The mammals seen so far here are the finback whale and a white footed mouse. Of birds Varied thrushes, Sicharkinglet, gurnets and a pine siskin have been taken and there are several kinds of ducks and a few geese in the harbor.