Alaska journal, v4407
Page 49
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CHILD 1951 21 July 14 Point Barrow, Alaska at midnight the recent plane load of alcohol to Frank Talbert began to flow freely and the joint started jumping. Things slowed down at about 2:30 and picked up again at 8:00 when the non-participants razed the home crazy in retaliation. It need hardly be added - "a bunch of the boys were whooping it up." July 15 In the p.m. I checked the various nests back of the lat. 3 new Snar Bunting nests were found. The Baird Sandpiper nest had hatched, one egg hatching. I got the 7 in < nest trap. Gil went out with Dan Thompson and Frank walked over to L.W. July 16 Dave could not get a viseal this morning, we caught up on our notes. After this I marked out some new bird trap site farther out S of ARL and moved traps at them so as to be prepared for the next session of hopping. 2 blown eggs of the Baird Sandpiper were found and treated. The weather was very overcast, warm and not windy, which resulted in many mosquitoes being present. In the afternoon we covered 88. All nests were empty and no new ones found. No young were seen. A caribou was seen on 88 and another was