26 Journal Sullivan J. Pitt Point, Alaska 1962 30 yards (cont) ridge leading to the Lake. Crouched down and watched the remaining 4 gulls for awhile. They were ±500 yards away across the lake bed - so I couldn't see much. A red phalarope flew up - landed about 15 feet from me by the side of a small pocket of water and began preening. A pectoral s. was feeding near the phalarope - after a couple of minutes 5 more pectorals flew in and begun feeding... Longspurs fed on the ridge put behind me. but 2 more lemmings on line III this evening (none on the other lines). It seems that local abundance of lemmings can be quite variable: 5 taken on line III, 1 on line II, 0 on I + IV. Water around line I and lack of grass on IV could explain this. Have also noticed some spots here and there on the tundra (one area in particular - on a straight line between line IV and the East end of the module) have some fresh runways and burrows. Still the overall picture here is one of lemming paucity. Ain't no owls, ain't no foxes, ain't no jaggers (hardly)... all indicate that ain't no lem-