JPMyers 1979 Journal Buffie Lck (25,42) Madu River, Atkasook, Alaska 16 June (cont'd) year and reported the [illegible] # to USFWS. Of phenological interest - All phenology notes above: first chick of year, 2 Acanthis meets and 1 Calcarius. This data is ~10 and 5 days already last years first hatchling dates, respectively. 17 June Not an auspicious beginning: at 0300 an unkimo walked into our bunk-wannigan and began talking with us. As he offered us marijuana, I suspect he was Stoned from the onset. He simply walked in and began talking loudly to 5 sleeping men. We were too stupefied to react at first, hoping he was an apparition. But finally Chris Sworth spoke up - thinking it was a friend of Jules Evans - asking them to quiet down. I then encouraged him to leave by saying we had to work. He left, but eventually as far as the kitchen. So I got up and stayed with him until he left at 0400. Now strange: by the time I got to the kitchen he was trying to open a can of tuna fish. He did, and put it on rye bread only to discover that wasn't to his liking. So he scraped the tuna off to assemble an English muffin. That was better. He ate two of them. Throughout all of this he was talking incessantly. Turns out his name was Barry Akpik, and he works on the CETA program at NAKL. He's down here [illegible] for the weekend. We should be honored, I suppose, that the hottest place in town at 3am Sunday morning was our bunkhouse. After he left I made breakfast and worked on notes. Left for the field at 0630. Temp=4° at 0645. Moderate, wet E wind kept it damp and chilly. But the clouds rose higher than at 1100 they disappeared, leaving a sunny almost calm day with temperatures remaining near 10°C. I walked [illegible] to the