J P Ulysses 1977 Journal Prudhoe Bay, N. Slope, Alaska 18 July 1200pm landed in Deadhorse Airport after 2hr ride on Lahr super DC3 from NAKL. Immediately appeared at Avis + NAWA Corp to establish ourselves. Then went to see Steve Jones + Wayne Hansen at VE - met hostily by Hansen, probably the reason in feeling kendroid. After Talking with them briefly we circuit + checked in w/ Angus Gavin, ARCO. But before that I should mention Jones's prediction rate figures - 65% of shorebird + palaearctic meets on his 250 acre plot taken by predators, primarily fox. Angus Gavin reports 90% lies for cirlons on his transects. Amazing fox year. Trip out to Old Dace after Gavin, largely car bonding. The tundra is barren, remarkably so. We found few shorebirds save a large concentration (100+) of tredy, most E. pusilla (up to 80) feeding on a gravel parking lot at the end of the West Dock road. Other spp present: C. alpina, Arenaria interpres - 80+, Calidris lapponica, A. pusilla, juvenile. All appear to be eating dipterans - mosquitoes, blown by the wind onto the gravel and trapped in its crevices. Occur at west dock in a conglomerate of wind-driven flocks with small circles + patches of open water scattered throughout. Many (several hundred) Changula flying on the water. 10+ Sterna paradisaea hovering along the dock. Milvus spp apparent but unidentifiable to species off in the Changula flock. 19 July 2 long walks today - one out NW beyond Buffy Pingo, the 2nd from Dock #1 ENE to the Sag Delta. Both w/ Dave Shuford. 0800-11:30 out by buffalo pingo - classic Burrow weather inflow fly lifting + dropping around us repeatedly. Easterly wind. Temp high 30's. We traversed a series of habitats including drying LCP, stream bank, low wet Carox sedge, + upland fennel. The only hot spot for birds was where the stream, coursing between 3m banks for most of the distance we covered, suddenly broke out into the lowland Carox marsh. At the mouth was a flock of alpina (10+), one broody C. himantopus, 2 juveniles pusilla, and many Calidris (better actually most dense along stream banks). A pair of Stercorarius longicaudus appeared settled locally, which is the area I had found a nest last June. Along the ridge where we walked Shuford + I found several small groups of Phoenicurus dominicus, typically at the crest of the ridge. One BROODY CALIDRIS BAIRDII. We were forced to return when Shuford decided to swim across a tundra pond (deeper than his hipboots). In the afternoon we went out toward the Sag delta, after a brief foray across the Sag River