Verbeek 1966 Journal 67 a strong North wind coming down the valley. In the morning I hiked over to the frost creeks along the shore - Crowbill Point and I tried to get around that point, but gave up. After observing the Thick-billed Murres and the Horned Puffins, for some time, I went back home via some hills, where I found the Arctic Ground squirrel (Citellus parryi) to be very common. In the afternoon, Tom and I and Ed Brown, the fellow who is collecting insects for the Bishop Museum in Hawaii) took a Weasel to the top of Saligvik Ridge W of Camp. From there we hiked down the frost valley to the beach, along which we walked as far as we could, rounding two places where you could get by when the waves receded, for a distance of about 3 km. The frost 1.5 km has few alcids, but from Nasorak Creek on, every ridge was occupied by either Thick-billed or Common Murres and Black-legged Kittiwakes. There were also some Tufted and Horned Puffins, as well as Black Guillemots. The latter three are not very common, but that is probably because they are hole nesters and are thus not seen. At Crowbill Point I saw several Raven, which probably nested on their very cliffs earlier in the season. On our way home we hiked up along Nasorak Creek and then cross-country back to the Weasel. The ridges and slopes of the rather gentle slopes have a lot of fellfield, with a lot of Dryas octopetala. On one of the hills, the one W of the mouth of Nasorak Creek (700 ft high) I heard and saw a Gyrfalcon. Paul de Benedichino saw two birds there