J Pillipus 1979 Journal 7 At Kusook, Meade River, North Slope Borough, Alaska 15 June Heeded out to Buffle Lek area (25,42) at 0615. Temp = 2° @ 0900, 3.5° @ 0600, 11° @ 1500. Wind 10-15 mph from East all day. Clouds began at 100% but cleared by mid morning. Then clouded over again with high cumulus throughout mid afternoon. I went through the breeding bird plot (circa 1938) on my way out, finding a hooting mule deer (?) in the process, and also a singing Luscinia on willow creek at (17,39) (au sp acant). The general objective for today's fieldwork was for the 4 of us (me, Shuford, Eveno, and Swarth) to search the loop for Tryngita. In the last 4 days traffic activity on the lek (see Tryngita spp account 10 June) has deteriorated from full intensity to virtually zip. While we did not go out on the 11th because of the storm, Shuford spent 1½ hrs out there on the 12th, and Swarth was out there 6 hrs on the 13 & 14 of June. Neither saw great shake - see Tryngita sp acant. Today we split up the dry ridge / sand dune region of the loop, each taking ~ ¼th of the area. We then searched back and forth over the cuture region looking for ???. See Tryngita sp account for results. - we found 5? and 1? (probable). No nests, no new leks. We searched 1.9 Km² or 190 ha in 3.5 hours (14 man hours) While the coverage was necessarily superficial, we are certain that there are no active leks. ?? could have been missed. While doing the survey we necessarily also learned a good deal about other bird spp using the area? See map in buffle spp account for area searched Habitat description - consolidated dunes now covered with dry lichen tundra and also some extensive dry Carex grasslands. No polygons. Along the river bank 200-300 m are unconsolidated dunes scattered with Salix and Elymus. Just behind the active dunes is a low wetland of Carex aquatilis, Dryas,