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J.M. Brodie
1957
Journal
Barrow, Northern Alaska
Aug 19 During the course of the day a party
of three people from A.R.L. John O'Sullivan,
Jerry Brown, and George Rosenfield
returned from a trip about three miles
south of the gas well where they caught
a golden eagle alive. The bird must
be sick. Guessed age 1 about a year,
it is not a full grown bird. They claimed
the bird flew, but weakly. They caught
it and brought it back - it was
placed in a small warijan in back
of A.R.L. A live lemming was thrown
in with the bird. The rodent was
immediately noticed by the bird but the
bird did not react. With every move
of the mouse the bird seemed to react
until after about 4-5 minutes of waiting
the bird pounced with a lightening fast
movement with one foot into the
lemming and started tearing it apart.
A few lemmings are processed.
Aug 20 An Arctic tern and a ground
squirrel were procured as skins. The ground
squirrel is one of Ingrid Dayne's which
was captured earlier in the season and
kept alive until today. It was originally
caught at Cape Beaufort on July 3, 1957