Alaska field notes, v4469
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A M Verleek 1966 Journal 16 NE of the mouth of the Slough I saw two birds, which appeared like Sandpiling, but they lacked the tanney color around the neck and head, so I thought them to be Rufous-necked Sandpipers. The male of this pair went thru a strange wrenching behavior. On my way home I noticed a pair of Peetoral Sandpipers. In the evening Ritilka and I went out to the Drum Area again where we noticed several pairs of Sandpiling. We also heard the Peetoral. 18 June. Got up early and left for the field... between Honey Bucket and South Salt Lagoon. The turnstones out there were as waxy as ever. I tried locating nests by going into an empty cabin and peeking thru the windows. I still have not found the nest, but I did put out some tentative stakes. There was little else to be seen, besides Red backs and Barnido and Semipals. I restaked three longspur nest and numbered them 1, 2, 3 with respectively 6, 5, 4 eggs. In the afternoon the three of us went to Gasline Bridge were Ritilka and Tom set two lines of trap for lemmings. By the way, saw the first two lemmings yesterday. One swam across a small puddle and a second one was on the Drum area. While the traps were being set I walked around the triangle formed by Gasline Bridge to see what birds were out there. There was one pair of Golden Plovers, who appeared to have a nest there, 3 pairs of Red Phalanges, 3 pairs of Barnido and about 7 pairs of Red backs.