January 1953 Journal June 13 Point Barrow, Alaska Heavy low overcast in the morning, with temperature near freezing and gentle to moderate east wind. The clouds broke in late morning and the afternoon was generally clear, but the kept blowing. Migration is not now pronounced. I saw no flights of waterfowl; one flock of eiders yesterday over central marsh. One white-crowned sparrow at base today. In late morning I hunted snow buntings at Britton wagon, but spent the day mainly at the base watching bunting activity. June 14 The weather was severe today with a generally solid and low overcast and a gentle to moder- ate east wind. The day was continuously cold. Songspurs and David sandpipers frightened from their full clutches of eggs on beach ridge were anxious to return to them, and did so almost immediately. Snow owls concentrated in the shelter of the drum area where they rested behind objects that would shield them from the wind, such as drums, drum steele, high polygons, or mounds of earth. Bill Thompson and I watched snow buntings from 8 to 10 am; I then counted lemmings in the drum area. Here I not in marshy places at the edges of shallow pools that green shoots, commonly trimmed at the tips by lemmings, seem to be growing and project often ¼ to ½ out of the mud