JPMayers 1976 Journal 411 To 1KPik Sloogh, Barrow, Alaska 28 July (cont'd) the pomorines drop off abruptly south of Twin Lakes, indicating that the breeding high this year is very local. We have been told by a number of George Divoky's crew, who are working on shoreline habitat mapping, that Barrow is the only place they've been this summer with appreciable (more than fragment) pomorines and no snowy owls anywhere else. Divoky's crew has been over most of the count between Cape Lisburne and Prudhoe, and in a series of places to the east from there as far as Barter Island. It would therefore appear that the high is indeed extraordinarily confined. Anyway, at 1KPik there were few birds - a gathering of black brant, including ~30 downys of varying age; and golden plovers, including a few on the mud of the sloogh. Not very exciting. See daily list for summary of spp seen. 29- 30 July back to old times, re-working grant proposal. Did not leave the desk, as we had to produce a manuscript for Frank to answer NST criticism/your winter tutorialship proposal. Temperature soared to 62°, S and SW winds. RAIN. TRANSECTS 6-10 31 July 0700 began sampling transects. 33°, 100% clouds / patchy ground fog, a slight W wind dropping through the morning as a drizzle picked up by 1130. Teller TRANSECT TOTALS: 6-10 Pluvialis dominica 11 .22 Polystichus stellari 1 .02 Calidris alpina adult 32 .64 Pluvialis d. 1 .02 Calidris alpina juvenile 12 .24 C. alpina a 15 .30 225 min. 50 ha. C. haemastica 2 .04 C. alpina j 9 .18 C. melanotos 8 .42 C. melanotos a 1 .02 C. melanotos j 2 .44 C. melanotos j 5 .10 C. pusilla 1 .02 Arenaria i 1 .02 C. mauri 1 .04 Linnodromus 2 .04 Linnodromus scolopaceus 2 .04 Phalaropus fulicarius a 15 .30 Phalaropus fulicarius j 7 .14 Phalaropus fulicarius j 0 .00 Stercorarius pomarinus 6 .12 Stercorarius pom. 3 .06 Colocerius leucopodus 23 .96 Calidris d. 9 .18 Plectrophenax nivalis 1 .02 Transect 1-5, sampled by Greenberg, are also included in the summary. Notes of note: the juvenile C. pusilla were on transect 6, almost all (21) in one unit,