A.M. Verbeek 1966 Journal 8 The Golden Plover and the Red backs are upland birds and they fit well into the present picture, since the first places to open up are the upland formations, such as ridges, and polygons. The Semipal seems to prefer more moist conditions, yet at times I find them feeding in "dry" places, where they seem to be out of place, at least so it seems to me. 10 June Earlier this morning, before 08:00 the sun made feeble attempts to get thru the clouds. By about 09:00 it began to rain, not hard but steadily. There was very little wind. All in all a nice morning which should melt a lot of snow. On my way out to the Voth area I thought I heard a Pipit and while walking to the spot where I thought it landed I noticed a flycatcher which turned out to be a Western Wood Pewee. I went back to the lab to get a gun and to warn Steve ad Pitelka. By the time the latter ad I arrived at the place where I last saw it, the bird was gone. I checked the east side of Cany but did not relocate the bird. I then went to Honey Bucket Hagoon to make some feeding observations on shore birds. There were many Red backs, one Pectoral O, a pair of White Rump, one Semipal, and twice a single Bandits. I also saw two Hoary Redgolds there and two nests of the longspur. Overhead I saw a flight of 6 King Eiders and (28,49) ad way in the distance to the East a flock of some 80 birds. These latter may not have been eiders as they were way too far away to identify. This afternoon we took off for Elson Hagoon, but first we went to see the fox den. There was no sign of the fox, so Steve