A. Verbeek 1966 Journal 20 22 June During the night the weather changed completely. The wind shifted to the E. and we had a solid overcast with fog in the morning and fog in the late afternoon. Steve, Tom and I went to Ilkkaavik today. We left camp at 9:15. The first 3 miles are good (paved road) from then on it is cross-country all the way. We crossed Foot-print lake (drained) somewhere between the old and the new Gravell. The lake, though drained is still fairly marshy and we scared by a lot of Pintail. We reached the N. end of Ilkkaavik by about 10:15. The lake was still frozen except for a ice free strip along the edge. On this strip we noticed a pair of Arctic Loons. We parked the weasel about 1/4 of a mile from the N. end of the lake and began our search on foot. The plant world was in about the same state as around the camp. New grass was about one inch long in wet places. The water the new growth was about 2 inches as is the case around our camp at Barrow. There seems to be far more moss around Ilkkaavik than I have seen around our Barrow Camp site. In the way of birds I was disappointed. There was a sprinkling of Red backs and Phalaropes in about equal numbers as at Barrow. The hummocks and ridges were devoid of any Bairds and Semipalmated. I heard and saw one Baird display and we saw one Semipalmated along a small lake W. of Ilkkaavik. The hummocks may not have been of suitable for semipalmated - little exposed ground, but appeared good for Bairds. We saw quite a few Peletons, in fact, about as many as Red backs perhaps slightly less. We only saw one female though, which we