SP Myers 1976 Journal GRID 3 5 July 0700 while driving out to the bairds I was able to collect the mystery gull. Having it on the hand proves not much more useful than out on the ice. Iris color - dark grey brown with light gold flecking and the orange-orange rump. Legs pink. I continued, beginning to cross track on grid 3 only to have the 07 which I had selected suddenly cease its territorial behavior + begin feeding in a small flock of pectorals. Oh to have landed birds! I therefore abandoned that, and as the grid needed confusing, switched flocks. The most significant development since last working out there is the shattering of many of the nests - and commencement of molting by broody birds. The presence of flocking C melanotus and P fulicarius was also apparent. GRID TOTALS GRID 3 25ha Polysticta stelleri 6 Pluvialis dominica 1 Calidris alpina 13 w/chicks C. mauri 9 C. bairdii 1 C. melanotus 8 12 - 3 displaying C. melanotus 9 3 - w/chicks Phaeopus spilopterus 2 displaying overhead, landed on grid Phalacrocorax lobatus 1 Ph. fulicarius 8 13 total Ph. fulicarius 8 51 - a few pairs still (3) - estimates may be low C. pusilla 5 Artemia intermedia 4 Stercorarius pomus 6 Calcarius lapponicus 9 Today I found the nesting effort of the pomarine pair working the SE upper regions of the grid which had nested before at PSL - this is the 8 that had been shot 6/18 by Eskimos with an arrow (I had extracted the arrow 20 June). One egg and the pair is exceedingly timid for a jaeger. Which brings me to a subject I've not discussed yet - how sympathetic one can be toward the jaeger killing proclivities of eskimo children. The pomarines are ferocious predators for working out on the tundra, as once one comes within 150 meters of their nest the birds commence attack, dive-bombing, screaming, hitting you on the head, hovering near by, inducing mobbing by local small birds.