J.D. Myers 1976 Journal 27 June (Cont'd) 28 June GRID 3, Barrow, Alaska difficult to approach — at least if we are disturbing them by making our measurements. FAP left this a.m. I tracked P.melanotus from 0445–0625 — See tracking account. The 879 in the upper reaches of GRID 3 were unordinately active this morning — as reflected by the tracking records. It appeared as if excess 879 were about and trying to assert themselves. During the p.m. Greenberg tracked in GRID 2 — south side, and reports an upheaval there. So things appear to be changing. The weather, for once — an unpleasantly strong W wind brought intermittent snow through the evening + early morning. Combined w/ the 77°F temperature at 0430 (rising to 28° by 0700) it produced a 1/8" blanket of snow. This melted off by 0930, when I went out to GRID 3 in order to census. Wail! That FAP has gone, it falls upon me to census both GRIDS. Today on 3 (9:30–12:45; 1400–17:30) I did fairly well, finding 2 Arenaria nests, 2 melanotus nests, 3 fulicarius, one posilla, and one afferina. — 9 in total. No watched nests yet. Very little displaying on the part of any species — One Calidris [illegible] 29 June I began a late census of GRID 2 but after 1½ hrs of distraction — trying to find affilia ged nests of problem individuals — I discovered that there was no way I could finish sampling today. So I went in and did a variety of desk jobs which had been accumulating. In the afternoon I went out w/ Peter Courtois to try out his new trap — a large loop trap on fulicarius, with only minor success. It is a large hoop (~1 m diameter), oval in shape, attached to a rat trap much like the net trap I have been using. Peter wants to use it to trap flocking juvenile fulicarius in August. We had difficulty locating the phalaropes near the net, and in fact they never were in the requisite position. Caught one for a nest, an individual banded by Doug Schmahl in prior year — band code: [al yjbg] — USFWS # 134987 — 4 legs. Consistent with yesterday’s census, there were few small groups of F fulicarius on the gird. However pairing still apparent in some areas. During evening I went for a hike with Malke Andersson — a Swede who has just arrived to work on Stercorarius hunting