Childs 1959 Journal 16 June Barrow, Alaska Arrived Barrow about 1000. after lunch spent sometime in the field with FBP and Dick Stilman. The melt off is considerably behind schedule, about 18 days I would judge from the usual pattern. Not many birds on the tundra yet. We saw longspurs, pectoral, semipalmated, and red-backed sandpipers, ptarmans, jaegers, snow buntings, pintail, old squaw. Lemming tunnels were fairly abundant and we caught me best one. On trip in we were above the clouds from south of Uniat to Barrow. Ocean ice open offshore, also an early occurrence. Pete reported a short-eared Owl at Berwick 17 June Made a survey flight to the Post-Rogers Memorial, south & the Meade River Coal Mine, then east To Teashepuk Lake, Colville delta, and Shistik Point and returns. The purpose of the trip was to locate concentrations of jaegers and to observe the snow melt. Very few jaegers were seen, perhaps less than 100, and one snowy owl. 3-4 short-eared Owls were seen. Otherwise very little was seen. The most important observation was the very large percentage of Tundra under water at this time, large areas of high tundra being under water.