JPHyens 1976 Journal 34 16 July Transsects 6-10 Beginning at 0730 d -sampled transects 6-10 this morning. The steady east wind continues, with no clouds and 35-40°F temperatures - this pattern has held for several days, and the insects are responding to the insolation. See transect summary for details. I give grand totals below, as well as those for transects 1-5, run by Greenberg. Transect Totals 1-5 259 minutes Polysticta stelleri 2 Pluvialis dominica 11 C. alpina 17 C. mauri 1 C. melanotos ♀ 30 C. pusilla 3 Aremania i 1 Ph. fulicularis ♂ 24 Ph. fulicularis ♀ 6 Stercorarius pom. Nycticorax scandiaca 1 Calcarius 10 Plectrophoenax 2 6-10 231 minutes Anas acuta 1 Pluvialis ♂ 11 C. elpina 23 C. bairdii 2 C. mauri 1 C. melanotos ♀ 43 C. melanotos ♂ 32 C. pusilla 3 Ph. fulicularis ♂ 44 Limnodromus 3 Aremania i 1 Stercorarius 6 Elgrio flammeus 1 Calcarius 22 Plectrophoenax 5 Again, nothing remarkable. Perhaps the count of C. melanotos is inflated because of their pernicious habit of mobbing. But not by mewls. There is a shuttled of C. melanotos around. 8 melanotos chicks are certainly not too high. The Branta nigricans must along transect 10 have hatched - Following the sample, I worked the rest of the afternoon on transect 10 regulation 17 July GRID 2 A change of weather! Wind shifting during the morning to NE, with fog moving in by mid- morning, but not holding. Temperature 35° rising to 40°. Wind lessened considerably. I conversed GRID 2 during the morning, and in the afternoon sampled vegetation along tran 7. Two things worthy of note - First, a general pattern seems to be emerging in that bird species appearing in flocks where they were last year. Thus, yesterday I had a flock of goldeneye (a, Belding ♂ 2) by the road. This a.m. There is one of 15 ♂ goldeneye on the Village Ridge Way grid 2. Dunlins are grouping—or at least hunting at—in, in the O33 region!