Jomich 1953 Journal Point Barrow, Alaska May 26 [illegible] owls remain conspicuous since arrival 2 days ago. Bird trapping was excellent and I had the traps open for 12 hours. Remained in the base area and hunted bunting among the drum stacks. May 27 Temperature at 8 am. was 31°. There was more thaw today than on any previous day so that in going over ground where I walked yesterday in trapping birds I repeatedly crashed through the snow crust into slush below, for as deep as 18" below the snow surface. In the day I made general observations. Frank Pitelka came in from Berkeley this afternoon. We made a short excursion to the S.E., secured the first tree sparrow found this season, a longspur, and a bunting, and then Frank demonstrated his skinning technique on the 3 specimens. There were broken fog-like clouds most of the day so sunshine was prominent in developing the thaw. May 28 There was considerable sun today with low fog-like clouds on the horizon and sometimes overhead. The east wind was of gentle velocity and quite steady.