SPMeyers 1976 Journal Barrow, AK 2 June Spent part of Am. Nonselling [illegible] bureaucrats. Greenberg elicited the paranoia of NOAA personnel last year at the NOAA atmospheric monitoring station by appearing a few times around the AK area at inopportune moments. They got his name and apparently associated all human silhouettes within, at bay Jack Millers, executive officer, jumped on me for last year's sins. Also talked w/ Ted about our fiscal situation, as requested by Newton. He now understands we operate w/o funds. Then went to IBP region w/ Greenberg briefly looking over vagrant frogs, no avail. He came back from [illegible] w/ reports of heavy movements of birds, dicky birds, into that previously fallow site. [illegible] Easterly wind. Foggy. Behind the labs we found a varied thrush, tree sparrow, many savannah sparrows, several vireos, 200 pintails. A rusty blackbird. Obviously there has been a new influx of birds. They seem to appear in waves, the first one having been 31 May, with nothing yesterday. IBP/Swiftsonian region GR102 3 June 0830-1200 on GR102, trying to follow/track a pair of pomarine jaegers. Weather a blustery 32 or so, with strong easterly winds blowing steadily. All off hauled in wider course, leaving a crust of hard snow everywhere, even though yesterday was so mushy I sank in place beyond the tops of my hip boots. The jaeger territory is huge - ~1200 x 600 meters, giving densities of jaegers of less than 5/square mile or 1.5/Km². Lekking activity is ever more apparent—I saw them regularly this morning, running between snow patches, in jaeger jaws, etc. But dropping of grass appears to be quite patchy, as is the distribution of lekking chimney-sparrows. In some places chimney-sparrows reach densities of >1/m², whereas in others there are none. Shorebirds: pectorals are still by far the most common with 50 doing their thing over much of GR102, save the upper, still snow [illegible] parts. Several 99 about receiving stimulants attentions. Prolin began displaying yesterday, although infrequently. Today several pairs were continuously active, involving chase and mutual aerial calls. 6 red phalaropes seen, each time in pairs (one 3-4, one 5-8, one unknown).