Alaska field notes, v4436
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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.