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CHILD
1951
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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