JPM Myers 1976 Journal 49 GRIDS 2-3, Barrow, Alaska 15 August (cont'd) Even though I did not pick up any on the grid, several (-1) Eimerodromus scolopaceus juveniles happened by. These are the first that I've seen this year (juveniles, that is). A harbinger of an invasion about to hit, as last year?. 16-17 August GRIDS 4-5 worked on building grids, painting stakes, etc. what fun. Most notable ornithological event has been the proliferation of juvenile golden plovers, and the appearance of juvenile and adult long-billed dowitchers. Gas Well + Beyond 18 August 0930 - 1400 went w/ R. Greenberg on 3 wheelers to a pair of lakes ~0.5 miles SE of the gas well. We traveled out along gas line road, which deteriorates shortly beyond the FAA building into a maze of rolligon ruts, 100 meters or more wide. Beyond the gas well most traces of human activity disappear, although wheel and rolligon tracks are evident. But NO STAKES!! (how can I say that after spending 2 days+ pounding more tundra footpiles into the ground). The area around these lakes is much more distinctly separated into low, non-polygonized areas or intervening ridges than is the immediate vicinity of Barrow - large tracts of flat marshy, much of them covered by a Carex- Eriophorum russeolum association. Dunlin, juvenile golden plovers were the common shorebirds. Few petrels. Many lapland longspurs. See daily list. Found a breeding pair of Larus hyperboreus with 3 chicks. Transsect 6-10 19 August 0800-1115 censusing transects. 32°-rising to 40° by 1430. 10% high clouds-clearing by 0930. Ice on glen ponds Transsect totals: 6-10 195 min tea Pluvialis dominica a j 0 20 Pluvialis d. a j 1-5 C. aspina a j 26 9 C. melanoto a j 0 0 C. pusilla a j 11 1 Ph. fulicarius a j 10 4 Stercorarius a j 4 6 Calcarius a j 6 4 Plectrophenax a j 3 Pluvialis dominica a j 0 20 Pluvialis d. a j 1-5 C. aspina a j 26 9 C. melanoto a j 0 0 C. pusilla a j 11 1 Ph. fulicarius a j 10 4 Stercorarius a j 4 6 Calcarius a j 6 4 Plectrophenax a j 3 Tryngites subruficollis Limonodromus scolopaceus 10 Ph. fulicarius a j 0 0 Stercorarius pom a j 23 7 Calcarius a j 18