Field notes: Alaska, v4401
Page 117
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
m Brock 1957 Journal A.R.K. Pt. Barow, Alaska May 31 dried brown portion and discard it and proceed to eat the remaining basal green part of the plant. June 1 Chester brought in one more lemming. went in a weasel with Tom Cade To look for lemmings. Drive to village and then about four miles west of the village and back, no lemmings a lemming sign was seen. Tom shot a golden plover and a red-backed sandpiper for specimens. Many caterpillar cocoons found on tundra. A white fronted goshawk was seen in flight. Also seen was a yellow warbler. yesterday Tom shot a myrtle warbler just south of the camp. I have not yet seen a live lemming in the field, yet. June 2 went into the field with John Shuman and Jack Campbell and Leo ? We went to the point at Barow - Pt. Barow - to check some of Johns instruments. While there about five golden plovers in a grays flew overhead. Also at the point we saw several hundred [illegible] birds in various sized flocks going in an easterly direction. These ducks turned out