Janich 1953 Journal July 21 Point Barrow, Alaska The air was calm in the evening so that the fresh water lake was slick at 9:30 p.m. Through the day eider flights were frequent and the greatest movements that I have witnessed were under- way. We operated the bird traps and on the 4 p.m. checking of them eider flocks were about every 3 to 5 minutes, in size from 50 to about 300 birds. One flock passed over the drum area and I could see that they were things, only a few females among them. Flights generally were offshore about 1/2 mile after passing across the spit in the vicinity of Bevinula where the birds sometimes were shot at by Eskimos. The day was absorbed in working over and disposing of 4 snowy owls, young from nest #3, and in Frank Pitelka's departure from A.R.L. July 22 The ocean in the lead in front of the base was glass-smooth through the morning. Sky was hazy and with some high cumulus clouds. At noon in spite of the calm and slick water an occasional ice block was floating up the beach toward Nuvuk at speeds about half as fast as I could walk, indicating a current, and not wind pressure, was carrying the ice. This seems to account for the statement of persons here that the ice always moves toward Nuvuk when it breaks up.