J P Mycus 1976 Journal 55 Barrow Spit 27 August (cont'd) several days a strong east wind has blown, stub creating enormous (>1ft) wrack on Elson Lagoon, vocal swell on the Beaufort Sea, and shifting gravel about the spit. It now appears that it has blown the birds away. GRID 4, GRID 2 28 August worked on the grids in the fog, raininig, paunting, vegetating, etc. Had it not been for the über wondfulness of the morning I would have passed the day w/o seeing a melanotos, so uncommon are they now. But without wind and with the fog, their voices carry so that the few around were readily detectable, particularly flying overhead. The fog is that pernicious Barrow variety, so thick that visibility at times went below 100 meters (I could a't see stales 100 m away). But looking straight up I could see the blue of the sky, tantalizing, teasing, provoking. TRANSECTS 1-4: 6-10 29 August 0710 began sampling transects, doing them in the following order: 6→10; 3,1,4,2. Finished #2 at 1430. Fog Weather Sudden to yesterday - heavy but shallow ground fog, no wind, 36°. By 1300, however, the fog turned off, and it became a brilliant sunny day - too warm even. Total (including 5, sampled 30 August) TRANSECTS TOTALS AVER 1-5 50 ha 6-10 50 ha Pluvialis dominica a 0 Pluvialis dominica a 0 7 18 j 8 C. alpina j a 0 0 0 C. alpina a 6 C. melanotos j 2 4 6 j 6 C. mauri j 1 Limnodromus scolopaceus j 3 C. melanotos 8 0 Phalacrocorax fulicarius 0 0 0 2 j 1 Limnodromus scolopaceus j 24 Stercorarius pomarinus a 5 Ph. fulicarius 8 0 j 3 0 7 Calcarius lapponicus 4 j 7 Plectrophenax nivalis 9 Stercorarius pom a 4 Nyctea scandiaca 1 j 0 Larus hyperboreus 3 Asio flammeus 3 Asio flammeus 2