SP Myers 1975 Journal Grid3 28 June morning- worked on notes. During the afternoon and evening I returned to grid 3 in order to follow the same melanator #3 (which I had followed yesterday 9 a.m., for two hours: first, to find out if there were any obvious changes in territory shape etc. over a period of one day. Secondly, to obtain time/activity information during afternoon and evening. The afternoon itself was balmy - incredibly so. Very little wind, a lot of sun, and warmth. A bumblebee flew past! The pond edges were awash with waterlilies. In fact the gale of the afternoon was that of a warm spring day on the pampas - save for the eskimos and jaggers. I remained on the grid until ~2100 after finishing birds. I did start #5, but found myself too tired to function. 29 June TRANSECTS 1,3 0930 began sampling transect: a miserable morning w/rain and wind. I wanted to run all 4 transects this am. but was forced to stop midway through #2 (sampled 3rd) when a f***ing helicopter of mammalia proportions made several passes low over the transect, forcing a flock [no less] of melanators on to the transect. I aborted because of the possibility that this flock was formed only by the machine-gun chatter of the helicopter. Transect results: #1 #3 C. alpinus 3 0 C. barbatus 2 0 C. fuscicollis 1 [1*] 2 [4*] C. melanator 8 9 [3*] 8 [4*] 1 C. puna 0 0 Ph. fulicaeus 8 2 [3*] 2 8 [6*] Pluvialis dominica 0 0 30 June Transects 2,4 FAP left on the morning plane. At 0900 I began canvassing transect 2, and after finishing I was moved on to 4, or at least tried to. Both Creek were still too full to allow me to cross MOAN Footprint Lake, so after having walked down there with the intent of returning