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CHILD
1951
Aug 6 East Oundlik, 110 mi. SSE Barrow, Alaska
was on the lake. A group of 10 yellow-billed
Loons were flushed and further on a pair of Pacific
Loons. A pair of Pintails flew over. Otherwise the
bird-life was very scarce except for a few
tree and Savannah Sparrows near the windsock.
It was interesting to see where ice wedges of
permafrost had caused the banks to break
away along the bluff to the west north of
the lake. Ground Squirrel burrows were
seen only a few feet above this solid ice mass.
We set the remaining traps near the wind sock at
the south end of the lake. One animal was seen
and messy runways of scats were present there.
The weather was fine today, just enough wind to keep
the mosquitoes down but quite warm.
Aug 7 We were all packed ready for the plane to
arrive early this morning so we spent the
morning hunting in close to camp in order to
be ready when the plane buzzed the camp.
We found a sheep in very bad shape in a trap
foot in the first trap line. Two juvenile
Bluethroats were seen several times in the
same area but it was impossible to collect
them. I did get one later on up on the
hill in the drainage ditch, much to my
surprise and an albino, very young juvenile
Redpoll in the same area. Five Stormsja