Art Verbeek 1966 Journal 4 Although the pattern of snow melt, starting at first on the exposed ridges, frost hummocks ad polygons is the same as - the alpine tundra, there is already one striking difference is the abundance of species. In the alpine you are dealing with three passerine species - larks, pipit ad Nosyphila, whom are represented here by the drumming ad the longspur. In addition we saw five species of shorebird on the exposed places. It will be interesting to see how they are going to divide the area ad how they are what preferences they will show as to breeding sites. We found two nest scrages. Apparently this is part of the pre-nesting behavior. They will make several of these test scrages before the first eggs are laid. Between 16:30 ad 17:45 Steve ad I went to Beach Ridge to get some date or feeding. The shore birds were almost absent i contrast to this morning. It was very cold with a still breeze from the east. We saw a pair of Baird's ad a single Red back. Saw the first queen leaves of a Potentilla today amidst a cluster of last years dead leaves. 7 June. Went out into the field between 8:15 ad 11:00. In the Drum area (DA) - there were a pair of Redbacks and a pair of Baird Sandpipers. I then continued to Beach Ridge where I saw one pair of Bairds and a pair of Red backs as well as two pair of longspurs. The Red backs ad Bairds often fed in the same places, rather close together and I could not see any difference between their