NAM Verbeek 1966 Phalaropus fulicarius (l) 9 June. The first 2 birds of the season flew by me as I stood watching Red-backs feed on the edge of the W. side of Footprint Lake. The phalaropes appeared dark thru my sunglasses but when I got the three binoculars I could see the warm brick red color. The continued flying against the wind till out of sight. One of the birds was definitely a female, and I think the other was too. 10 June At least two groups of Red Phalaropes moved past me at Elson Lagoon. One flock counted 10 birds the other was of about similar size. They stick together as a flock. Toward 17:00 we saw one wading in a flooded part of the tundra. 11 June There were less Phalaropes today than yesterday. At Honey Buckets Lagoon I saw only 4 birds this morning, while Steve and I saw only bird, a female, at Elson Lagoon. 12 June Took 3 phalarope pictures today. They are very tame and I took one picture by slowly walking up to them to within one meter. The male was more cautious and could not be approached to within 1.75 m. In the middle of Central Marsh there were 5 birds feeding in shallow water. Three of these were females. At one point there were two females and a male feeding together, although it was obvious that one of the females was mated to the male. The other female was not chased away. 19 June Found a nest with 4 eggs near the mouth of Voth Slough. The male flushed in front of me and walked away from the nest beating his wings above him at an angle of 45° to the horizontal, in the meantime calling the nasal tweet tweet