Alaska field notes, v4435
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J.P. Myers 1975 Journal POW MAIN, 1 km W of NARL by road, Pt. Barrow, Alaska 20 June (cont) which turned out to be flaripes. But - there was another Triaena flew as well, and Russ + Peter were convinced that what they had seen was the other bird, + that it was not a flaripes. (Bear yellow legs had never been reported at Barrow before, although glaucela had). We saw it flying overhead; it called a non-flaripes note, + then disappeared into the heavy fog. Later that afternoon Peter saw it again, + having done some reading that afternoon, confirmed that it was a glaucela. However we did not collect because by the time that the gun got there it was gone. Grid 3, SW of FAA building Pt. Barrow Alaska. During late afternoon we Russell (Munberg) and I worked on placing a 50x50m subunit grid in a low center polygon - caryx area NW from Grid 2 + 8TE SW from the FAA building. Golden plowes + lowitilers displaying. Call it Grid 3 Grid 2 21 June 39° at 0800, slight E wind w/a high cloud cover. Began following 4 mile markers at 0850. By 0900 the wind shifted to the W, although remaining light. Followed incubating P. donalum afterwards until moon, but as they were on south part of the tundra I did not get complete samples. Grid 3 1600 - finished layout stakes on Grid 3 w/FAA. six mule deer present 22 June During the morning, I finished working Grid 3, finding several with (seerwat map of grid 3). Then the weather was stuffy again with occasional rain, thick inciscent fog and cold. Then in the afternoon we (Russ Greenberg and I walk) set out to place transect 3 (E of gasoline ridge, near 5 meadow lake) and transect 4 (W of gasoline road and S of IBP site 2). (Cold, foggy, with moderate east wind and enough rain to be unpleasant). One White-rumped sandpiper (see trip list) 23 June Beginning at 0845 I began renewed Grid 3. Although at the time when we went out weather did not look favorably, with a light W wind and solid fog, by 0845 it was breaking up and burning off. By moon, except for intermittent patches of fog descending from the Chukchi Sea, the sky was clear, the wind down, + it was gloriously warm + sunny.