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CHILDY
1957
June 17 Point Barrow, Alaska (cont)
Turnstones in their areas today. They found nests of Snow Bunting, Baird Sandpiper, and Longspur.
June 18 Frank covered LW+9 LE in the am. Buff-breasted Sandpiper and Northern Phalarope seen today. A different passerine flowerer mid-ridge - might have been a Red-poll. Gil set out traps last night at midnight & picked them up this a.m. No success. Rae got 2 Common (Lemmus) yesterday. At 1300 we started a 24 hour record of the activity of pair B Snow Buntings in the storage area. Frank took the afternoon while Gil +9 hunted longspurs for stomach contents near the pipe-line.
June 19 Continued the snow bunting project until 1300. Gil +9 went out to LW where he checked traps & covered LE. On the way in we hunted on the marsh and got 3 Northern Phalaropes. We had just picked up a bird when that transgressor went on. It was a long and tedious walk back. Harry was not happy about it. In the evening we went to the Cabin's whaling Celebration NELIKUTUK. This consisted of bouncing individuals on a set of walrus skins, 30' in the air to determine who could do the most intricate maneuvers