JP Myers 1976 Journal 2 Barrow, Alaska 30 May (cont'd) Only bird of note was a single [illegible] anemolotes. Temperature 36°, light E wind low clouds 31 May 8:50 left lab with R.Greeneberg and walked out gasoline road to transects and grids. Wind shifted during the night to E, temperature down to 34°. Typical low cloud/fog. It was apparent by the time we turned off the town road onto Gasoline that something had changed → there were already several prominent jagers visible. Then reaching Village Ridge we happened on a ruddy turnstone and a joker plover. Melt obviously proceeding, with bare areas [illegible] everywhere, although some areas, e.g. Bokka, far advanced w/respect to others. Russ sampled Grids 2 and 3, recording an estimate of percent snow cover. I did same for transects [illegible] 2, 4 and 5. The soft snow made walking very difficult. By 11:30 The sun was shining. I finished at 1:30 and walked back in. Birds were literally flying in as we worked, an witnessed by the fact that on our way out we saw no pretwales; on Russ's return trip he found 14, in one flock of 12 and a pair; on my way back I found one flock of 10, one of 125, and another of 15. All were along Village ridge. Snow had melted noticeably by then also. In fact, the tundra came alive this a.m.— see [illegible] daily list. Among notables were first dunlin, [illegible] baird, whateaer, as well as those mentioned above. Found two active pairs of Nycticorax, one with a nest and eight eggs beside the Smithsonian ledge on the edge of Volta Circle 19:00 hrs went out again on a three wheeler to transects 1 and 3. Temperature approx. 41°, with a very light easterly wind and thin fog, thin enough to be worse for days, keeping visibility down to a km or so, but allowing bright sun to penetrate. All the heat has made the snow very mushy and difficult to walk in. It also created the perfect situation for finding leaving distinct tracks in the snow — and because of this I found a fox den out on gasoline ridge. Actually the den is on the west side of the ravine which flows into both creek from along the west side of Gasoline, on the west side of the ravine about 200 m S from the entrance to Both Creeks. The fox is obviously very active, with tracks everywhere over Gasoline ridge.