JPlayers 1979 Journal 6 NARL, Barrow, North Slope Borough, Alaska 13 June (ent'y) Passerculus sandwichensis - Obsinging in a few swampy spots by With Creek and Pow-Wain. Not a hot year. Calcaris lepophus - one incredible year for longspurs. I have never seen them this dense. On Grid 1 it isn't that bad (2-3 more territoria than usual) but on Grids 2 and 3 they are double normal density - almost 1/ha. Acanthis flammea - only in camp. Plectrophenax nivalis - most abundant in camp but usual numbers elsewhere. 14 June I waited for NARL to get its act together almost all day. The pilots and the administration are fighting over bureaucratic power and not flying airplanes because of it. At 1000 they finally said they would fly today, leaving for Meade at 1300. I spent the next 2 hours in the field walking out gateway ridge. Weather was chilly, 31°, but no wind. Submergent fog. The morning walk allows me to append the above comments on a few species. Ploceidis dominica - spectacularly abundant, breeding even in the brush around Grid 4. Pairs are everywhere, and because they are so visible it is difficult to look through binoculars across the landscape without having a pair in your field of view. Calidris melanotos - definitely uncommon Calidris canutus - abundant throughout tundra highlands Stevoranius parvulus pomarinus - breeding out by South Meadow Lake. I saw a pair chasing a [illegible] fox