Journal elsewhere, is greatly increased. Could be! Can't say as much for the bird activity. One phalarope, 4 red-backs, A semi-pels in drum area, and 2 pachodes in same, plus owls. Walked low polygon, meadow, and ridge areas with equal success - namely, little. Picked up dead dowitcher next to gas-line - apparently hit it in flight. Fairbanks, Alaska Went in to see Max about beginning work, and ensues up an R4-D bound for Alaska Science Conference. Remain here until: Barrow, Alaska Back from conference, and out to the fields, to see what are weeks time have wrought. What I have wrought is winter! Dark now at 8:00 P.M., the vegetation has lost all traces of green. Salix, esp. rotundifolia, is a bright orange. The grasses and seges are all brown or red. Skin ice is lasting well into the day. Saw a flock of snow-buntings and several glaucous gulls. Primary and retroix molt is very evident in the gulls. Set a line of 48 lemming traps