JPhyceus 1976 Journal 16 GKID3, Barrow, Alaska 20 June accent. Observations of molt - a Calidris ferruginea in full breeding or plumage landed on GKID3, and was moving around in association with two pairs of Arenaria interpres. The short-tailed shearwater was again active along the ridge. 21 Jun Strong W wind w/rain and snow did not make the morning's work of tracking wulamaton at all pleasant. As I tracked, Russ Greenberg covered transects 1,3,5. See transect accent. P.M. tracked a pectoral gull again. TRANSECTS 6-10 22 June 0730 began sampling transects 6-10. See transect accent for details. R.G. sampled #2 and #4 concurrently. Temperature 34°, 100% clouds, light W wind at the onset, with the sky cleaning by 1130 when I finished #10. Yesterday's rain has moistened most of the tundra, although not reaching saturation in the high polygons. There is obvious new growth of Populus and Eriophorum in deep troughs now, as well as green leaves on Salix rotundifolia and S. pulchra. Found one yellow-flowered Draba in bloom on a high center polygon in Liguula confusa meath. Snow remains only in a few sites where protected by ridges. The low Carex marshes along the east end of transect #9 are cleared and draining. Birdwise it was a good run, both because of the activity of shorebirds and the sighting of other spp. of particular interest - a black brant nest, clutch size as yet undetermined, on an island in a pond by transect 10 in a low center polygon system. 6 Grus canadensis foraging in 3 pairs along the end of #8. A Somateria fischeri pair and a & were moulting in a nest. 3 Gavia arctica displaying overhead. And extensive displaying by a Calidris canutus (see spp accent). Took extensive photography of high center polygon vegetation. By mid-afternoon weather was quite cloudy because of the sun. [illegible]