Journal Maclntyre, Beaufort Sea Coast, Alaska 4 July (coh10) Inoone wanted to kill Schlesinger what to do, and he had an unprepared screech beat on meandering finally subsided when the USFWS people returned co/hipbook. I had wandered off toward some nearby ridges searching for thrushes. As they cooled and headed off down the runway (W), then onto a road, I tried back through the flooded area to catch them. We remained in a group thereafter, going ~ 0.5 miles away from the terminal, then returning. It was uncoordinated birding at its worst. The tundra by the runway is similar to some areas of Barrow, but there seemed to be bolder defined habitats: instead of the finely intermediated several set of wet - non wet habitat you see at Barrow, caused by the several types of polygonization (particularly low center), there were low areas of 100-400 m expanse, separated by actual ridges, well defined areas of high center polygons within dry, sloping troughs. Vegetation was phenologically well ahead that at Barrow. In the depth of the high center polygon were several flowers blooming which might have not appeared at Barrow. For Man, the grasses in the marsh, also a species I don't recognize from Barrow, had grown 6-8" out of the water - a lush area of much more substantial growth than as yet has appeared at Barrow. Topographically another prominent difference between Maclntyre + Barrow was the presence of a pingo - a large cone, over 10m high and at least 100-200 m in diameter. According to Maclean, this is where the buffalo should have been - and they were (although we did not reach it; I asked the OST+WS.) There was another leak on a beach ridge also. An additional contrast to Barrow, and one related to my original statement about the clearer separation between upland and lowland, was the structure of the ponds, which were large - [illegible] vegetation belt. They were surrounded by a narrow but thick strip of emergent grasses, lying between open water and either high polygons or short grass upland. In fact there were more than one area of fairly level upland without any polygonization with a thin vegetation covering giving in area of short grass prairie [almost].