Alaska journal, v4407
Page 39
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CHILD5 1951 July 5 Point Barrow, Alaska quadrat fashion 5 of ARL. Spent the afternoon looking at the Snow Buntings situate and banding young in the nest. Gil & Frank went out to LW. July 6 Spent the day trapping and making traps. The birds 5 of ARL continues to show up in the traps in numbers. 65 records were gotten! The Longspurs are well into the molt and records on the molt sequence were started. Rose got a B King Eider. Frank & Gil went out to LW in the a.m. July 7 Frank & I covered LE while Gil checked the traps in the morning. The Longtail Garganey were still present, again 60-11 of them. From what we can gather the & phalaropes have left the area as we have not seen any in several days. Very strange Longspur behavior on LE. In the p.m. I set the bird traps out and now have 37+1g'sp. trap in operation. I did not get as many as yesterday as the weather was colder & the wind stronger. A dog has apparently found the bird hunting good in the traps as 5 were smashed at 2030. We found a Red-throated Loon's nest with 2 eggs SW of camp with 2 eggs. July 8 I got up around 1015 and ran the traps. The dog had been at it again and smashed a few more traps. Spent the afternoon getting the banding dope in order & running the traps. Ceased banding at 2030. The We went out at 0130 this morning & has been moving by all day driven by the nest wind.