J.P. Myers 1975 Journal Cape Prince of Wales, Seward Peninsula, Alaska 25 July (cont'd) The tundra, thick mostly tall grasses + sedge, is cut by a series of large ponds which appear shallow. (large being 100-200 m long & and sometimes approaching ecircular). A stream runs along the base of the mounta + flows into the sea at the village (tiny, of ~100 people). It is separated from the low tundra by a slight rise in which there is a bit of polygonization + a greater slightly dryer vegetation. We walked from the airstrip to the ocean, then down the beach through town to the mounta, then back through town, partly by the stream to the airstrip. Because of the limited time we saw very little (see trip list). Shorebirds had obviously bred there - the phalaropes, calidridiies + Luirodromus were all behaving as if w/chicks. I found what must have been a C. mauri clade. The weather was extraordinarily good, with a light wind + something which approached sunshine. From the ground we could see the Diomede but not Siberia. Left Walrat 1620. transects 1,2,3,4,5 27 July A cold night + morning - three ice on the ponds and a crust on the tundra when I began sampling transects at 0715. These last several days of bad weather with wind, fog, drizzle/snow and 100% cloud cover must have had a depressing effect on the insects available to foraging birds - especially critical now with the peak of hawing young. TRANSECT TOTALS: 1 2 3 4 5 alpina 3 2 0 3 5 bairdii 1 0 0 0 0 melanotos 9 0 1 3 3 1 puella 0 0 0 0 0 Ph. petal fulicarius 8 0 3 3 1 1 Pluvialis 5 0 0 3 0 One apparent facet of the habitat use patterns, particularly those of dunlins and plovers, is that as the spectrum of available habitat increases - with opening of flat through drying and evaporation, and the drying of the better drained