JPM Myers 1976 Journal Barrow, Alaska 29 May Ross Greenberg and I landed on a Wieneg flight at 1700 this afternoon, having left Fairbanks about 1540. Back at Barrow again. Temperature a charming 29° or so, with a steady NE breeze under 15 knots. Low ceiling, completely overcast. And snow. Waiting for the expedition to take us out to the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory, our Barrow list grew by leqos and bounds, with a few singing snow bunting 837 and an overflight of Larus hyperboreus. Snow cover extensive, but a bit wet. A few bare places by the road on the way back to the lab. Up to 20 glorious gulls out on the ice of the Chuckchi Sea across the road from the Mail dump. Something never changes. Back at the lab snow bunting singing + displaying as lustily as ever. We checked in, at dinner, discovered that Harry Underwood was on vacation and Jack Wellons temporarily in charge. Warren Denner left on the plane on which we arrived. I managed to finagle a temporary lab from Wellons, as ours is to be cleared. But so we mentioned about, raking the accumulated snowmounds on various bulletin boards, it became apparent that a fascist wave had hit the labs, carrying it to new and uncharted levels. Locks, keys, permanent 10 cards. Soon there will be passwords. Met Howard Broevey, U.S.T.R.O.S person from Seattle working on marine mammals. Doug Woody, flunky for George Divoky + the only competent birder around. He has been out on the ice at the lead, counting waterfowl moving north. Around Barrow for the last few days, had little to report. Apparently the Lavis arrived recently. Longspurs had just come in. A few ruddy turnstones had appeared. No snowy owls → that is a significant observation given what was supposed to have been a lerning high year. Only two jaegers seen, out at the lead. About 2000 we drove to Pow-mutin, finding it snowed in + 5ens bird sure ~15 Plectrophenax. Then drove out to the Cake eater and Smithsonian buildings. Even the Button area is almost 100% snow covered. See list. nothing to crow about 30 May 0830 R and I walked out behind the lab to the Fresh Lake shacks. One large bay patch just behind the animal colony - flock of 57 longspurs, hunting (8+9) and I Acantthis 2Asia. Almost no other birds the rest of the walk. We then found Woody ad his truck, and went into town to bird. A few bare areas produced everything on the list.