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JPMyers
1976
Journal
56
GRIDS 2-3, Barrow, Alaska
30 August 0710-0945 censused both grids. weather pleasant, -20% high clouds, 40°F, no wind growing
to a light W wind hearing fog by 0930.
Census totals
GRID 2 0710-0825 25ha
GRID 3 0830-0945
Pluvialis dominica a 0
j 2
Calidris alpina a 10
j 6
C. melanaotus a 0
j 0
j 2
Limnodromus scolopaceus j 20
Ph. fulicarius a 0
j 0
j 13
Stercorarius pomarinus a 1
j 1
Calcarius lapponicus 1
Pluvialis d. a 0
j 0
Calidris alpina a 0
j 0
C. melanaotus a 0
j 0
j 1
Limnodromus s j 57
Ph. fulicarius a 0
j 0
j 13
Stercorarius pomarinus a 2
j 1
Larus hyperboreus 3
Asio flammeus 3
And so the season ends: peckover, red phalarope, and dunlin down to [illegible] the last
remains, downdayers apparently existing. An arctic fox accompanied me today and
surveyed the grid, catching at least one lemming.