Jonich 1953 Journal july22 Point Barrow, Alaska Thompson and I operated bird traps in drum area. In the morning we went to snowy owl nest #3 with Max Brewer and examined specimens and wrote up notes in afternoon. Light rain from south in the evening. july23 Collected lemmings and phalaropes in Central Ward this morning. Small ponds have receded greatly and some are reduced to soggy masses of veget- table material in which the Chitophylla and a [illegible] (this latter just in first blooming) are abundant. One sinks about a foot in the ponds, apparently to the ice table below. Many ponds, of course, have much water in them but in general its level has dropped. july24 Bird traps were operated all day in drum area. In the afternoon we examined lemmings and the birds collected this morning. In the morning Thompson and I went to the south shore of the salt water lagoon where we collected birds for Hurd, and where I made lemming counts. Afternoon we went to the beach ridge, collecting and counting lemmings. Only one nest is still active here, that of a short-eared owl. The weather remains mild with almost continuous overcast, fog over the ice and light winds. The warm rain greater day caused disappearance of the ice from the