JP Myers 1976 Journal GRID 2, Barrow, Alaska 13 June Tracked birds from 01:29 to 6:15. A warm evening, with light wagarious/variable wind shifting between NW and SE, then back again. A few raindrops. Temperature stayed within a degree of 39°F throughout the evening. Both breeds were fairly active, much more so than the individual tracked the previous night. See tracking accent. Saturday night seems to be drizzling might here, everywhere, despite the fact that Barrow went dry last winter. Several carloads of teenagers arrived Gasoline, parking out at the end. One barely made it back in, plunging off the road onto the tundra in a great splash of water with the hood flapping back. I was amazed to see the teenagers simply walk away from the car (or even a discussion of cellular or not to try and regain the road). The driver sprang out and sprinted down the road, as if facing a beating by tin fillows. 0730 - 3-wheelered out to Alwork in order to attempt to tape the Calidris rufula (or which Peter Connors found displaying here yesterday). Did so successfully, largely because of the absolute stillness of the air. See tape log. 14 June 0:00 to 0700 tracked birds on GRIDS 2 and 3. A ghastly fog, cold enough to cover my back with ice from the westerly wind, hurt visibility, and probably also affected bird activity, particularly as the evening until 2000 was balmy. By 0700 as I was quitting the fog had begun to lift with a westerly; the sky clearing first out to sea. Of particular interest was that the peckorals headed mainly (though not exclusively) to the west, into the wind. Until the wind shifted they were largely looking into the east, also facing the wind. 15 June Transsects 1, 3, 4 on a late morning. Weather warm and sunny with a westerly wind. Began #1 at 11:15. Snow melt-off is nearing completion along most of the transects, with #3 being the hold-out. Even if, however, is largely free of snow, with an average cover of only 8%. Observation of note: a large flock of glaucous gulls is feeding upon drowned lemmings in Volvo Slough, catty between transects 2 and 4. There were over 60.