SP Meyers 1975 Journal Wainwright North Slope, Alaska 21 August (cont'd) After reaching the mouth of the river we went perpendicularly to the ocean for ~300 m in order to reach a large "mudflat" on the opposite side, a composite of mud and gravel with some places high enough to be covered with Puccinellia. Birds counted: there were largely along the channels culling through the flaps - only a few westerns were actually on the flat itself save along water edges: C. alba 3j C. alpina Phalacropus fulicarius 8j + 7ad + 40 flying Limnodromus scolopaceus 4 + 10 flying C. mauri 4 Phalacropus fulicarius 200 Changula hygromelis 1 We returned along the same route, save an extensive foray into the tundra ridge to claw an Empidonax (Leitneri difficilis or flavivertex - see Greenberg's extensive description) and to run the splay transect (which yielded 2 Ph. fulicarius juveniles). During the afternoon I walked around town - there are many C. mauri about, and a few porilla, as well as altrigatus Limnodromus & Ph. fulicarius. To my annoyance + concern the Produse barge, which had been off Wainwright in a large land when we arrived, pulled south to Icy Cape to avoid the incoming ice. 22 August 0800 I returned alone to the Kuk River transect (first visited 20 August); Greenberg went back to transsect along the Chukchi toward the south. Again, a thick fog permeated the area, making all but nearly (within 200 m) birds virtually uncheckable. The splay transect again yielded no birds; along the 0.5 km (5 hectare) inland transect there were two juvenile alpina. Then at the very end of the Kuk splay transect in a pool isolated from the main body of water by a gravel spit (pool dimensions ~125 m diameter) were 2 Limnodromus s. juveniles, 3 C. alpinaj's, 2 A. melanotus j's and one Ph. fulicarius. The Kuk splay transect was poorer in comparison to results of 20 August: only 2 birds (2j melanotus) were actually on the transect. Several alpina, fulicarius, and Fluvialoid flew by. I returned by cutting directly across the borden to the airport, speaking with A. melanotus, dominica, and scolopaceus en route. See daily trip list or species seen.