NAM Verbeek 1966 Journal q walked over to the den and looked into it. After he had made some moves at the entrance the fox came out at the other end and ran down the Beach Ridge, pausing once in a while to look back. On Pitelka's Plot we stopped and took some pictures of the tundra, which is still very much snow covered (99%). There were no displaying Shorebirds to be heard or seen. The land- scape was particularly dismal and empty for as far as you could see. It also rained softly and there was plenty of fog along the horizon. We continued to the shore of Elson Lagoon where there was quite a bit of open ground. Pitelka went to the S. to collect some more g longspurs, while Steve and I went N. to get some feeding observations. We saw Pectorals (pair), White-Breasted (pairs), About 20 Red Phalaropes - two flocks, and Red-backed Turnstones. Overhead there were Pintail and Spectacled Eider (?). The tundra plants were beginning to grow. I saw some rosettes of what looked like one or more species of Saxifraga. Underneath one lemming nest, which I kicked off the ground, I noticed the green grass, showing the effect of increased temperatures underneath this nest. In the evening Pitelka and I went for a walk from 21:00 to 23:45 along the Honey Bucket Road. There was a lot of Shorebird activity, with Golden Plover, Banded, Semipalmated, Red-backed and Turnstone performing aerial displays.