A.N. Verbeek 1966 Journal 1 Point Barrow, Alaska June 3 Snow buntings are display-ing around the buildings. I also saw a flock of ± 50 Glanous Gulls just on the edge of the camp. Apparently they stick around all summer and do not seem to breed, although 95% of the are adult birds. Among the gulls I saw some 10-12 Buddy Turnstones. After lunch Steve Maclean and I went in a Weasel out into the tundra east of camp to check the progress of snow melt. The top of the ridge running along the marsh was emerging from underneath the snow. The vegetation, mainly lichen ad grasses was quite dead. On the exposed patches I saw my first Lapland Longspurs and there were also 2-3 pairs of Red-backed Sandpipers, the first of the season. One male went repeatedly thru his flight display, a strange gurgling sound which comes in two phases, one at a lower pitch than the other. While we climbed back to the Weasel a single Pomarine Jaeger flew over, and continued due NE. The whole day long I have seen large flocks of King Eiders, flying rapidly close over land and the frozen sea. Steve picked one up, a male, last night. The beast apparently flew against a telephone wire. This seems to happen more often. June 4. It was cloudy and gloomy in the morning but towards noon the sky began to break and in the afternoon it was a beautiful warm day. Steve figured it could have been the warmest day on record.