Journal Proudho Bay, N. Slope, Alaska 21 June 1815. On the whole the habitat here appears more uniform over smaller areas than that at Barrow, but in to these may be more types here. The most familiar to me are found out by the wet dock, along the N.W edge of the bay - a good mosaic of mixed polygons and ponds w/ C. melonotus, C. alpina, C. pusilla, Ph. fulicarius - i.e. the Barrow hard core. Of these C. melonotus are the most conspicuous - as you might expect because of the for behavior. But C. pusilla pop up whenever you stop, and in wet areas Ph. fulicarius are quit regular. No where, however, have I been taken by a real abundance of shorebirds. Even longspurs rather infrequent 22 June today set 3-0.5 km transects in a miserably persistent rain. temp ~36°. NW wind 100% low clouds. rain from ~1030 on until my part when I quit at ~1830. This is worse than Barrow weather (though I accept that Barrow is suffering similarly - the thought that fly too are encroached is in a perverse way consoling). My transects emphasize low wet tundra today - low center polygons and low hummocks grading into somewhat higher land on Tran 1 (see map for locations). T2 is entirely low center polygons and marshes. Three CP's are nowhere nearly as well formed as those at Meadow River - they lack the well defined rim system with a deeply contrasting center. Nevertheless the rims are perceptibly above the center and their occupation is more manic. T1 also crosses over a slight sloping ridge and then passes in to some high hummocky areas (lakes) with a fair mass of dry rim veg. with low troughs and centers - but the physical array is much less regular than that at Meadow River. I also traversed some streamside habitat - Dryas rubrafolia, Saxifraga oppositifolia with strong seed boil activity on a steeply sloping bank. Although the habitat was extensive - 20 m wide + as long as I walked along the stream (500 m) found only one bird - a soaked Lagopus mutus f. A nearby pingo across which T3 passed & observed a hunting Sturnornis longicaudus (actually in the adjacent upland tundra) and a displaying C. alpina (appeared to be nesting in adjacent upland tundra), and a displaying P. quadrata as it supplanted a P. dominica. 23 June more constantly rain this morning, soaking through my "rain" gear. What fun. - temp 36° a good NW wind chopping along blowing the rain that came up at 0430. I am still frying