J.P. Weyraus 1975 Journal Britton area, 1 km E of NARC by road, Pt Barrow, Alaska 9 June (Cont'd) increased to the point where it looked convincingly like precipitation (frozen drizzle?). Immediately upon turning along the road I found shorebirds: C. alba displaying & wading, turnstones copulating, a Ch. semipalmata finally w/p, still displaying (field appearance?) and C. virilla displaying, (see appendix). I then (OB3) continued on to the area we had gridded yesterday in order to mark stakes. After two hrs, part of which I was spent chasing a Rwy Lr Ploeg working back to camp. In the low area to the NE edge of the Britton area I saw one Tryngite, which landed briefly only to fly again, and displaying C. alba's again. 10 June 0900 I went to Britton area w/ FAP + PGC; our objective was to follow a banded semi-palmated sandpiper recording its position at minute intervals. FAP was obtaining a measure of bird density over the entire area; PGC was to follow the mate of the banded bird, and I was following it (RwyLr; 0830) this process began at 0816 (see virilla appendix for details). Windy morning (from NE) temp = 30° at 0830; after a morning snow shower the ponds have ice upon them. At the onset there was a snowy owl at the N end of the area, within 50 m of the grid; several Bt jacques frequented the area during the morning (see pomaire jacques appendix). The results were disappointing: only 4-5 virilla were in the area: RwyLr; RbyLr, a Q W/ RbyLr, and R-, plus, perhaps, an unlocalized Q of RwyLr - this incorporated the area from the FAP building to the N end of the Britton area. RwyLr's Q was either incidentally out of sight, or spooked off by the heavy # of jacques using the area. Following data were complete until minute 50 when a roadquidu went by, at which point the followed bird flew ~250 m to the opposite end of its area + where I could not find it. 1321 - returned to Britton grid area w/ intent of following RwyLr again; however I was unable to locate it. I spent the rest of the afternoon in the vicinity of the BAP area taking microhabitat information on pectorals, semi-palmates, dunlins, and red phalaropes. Grid 2, N of Smithsonian Building, Pt Barrow, Alaska 11 June spent day in field w/ FAP placing grid in area W of road + N of Smithsonian Building. Dimensions: 500 x 500 m; 50 x 50 m subunits. Area is extensive low polygons plus, on western side, many small ponds. Heavy numbers of red phalaropes