Mackie 1966 with B77. Sporadic low intensity song, but no encounters. Also a few paired buntings. Went in to meet the plane. It was delayed until 11:30 P.M. (yep-same old Wien), then a C-46 lumbered onto the strip bringing Niko Verbeek and Eunice Brewer, among others. Niko's introduction to the Arctic was made complete when the truck broke down halfway back to camp, and they had to burn a cold ride in the back of a Vinnell pickup. The first evidence of peeps as I was walking in to town: heard several turnstones and one displaying red-backed snapper by the dump, then saw a turnstone. There are many glaucous gulls around, and large flocks of Eiders still going by. Groups of white-crowned sparrows and at least a pair of slate colored juncos in camp. 3 June Barrow, Alaska got Niko squared away in the morning, and after a fortuitous encounter with Dr. Brewer, Herr Director, drove our to the field.