Maclean 1966 perhaps over-emphasise) the importance of continuing to concentrate on feeding observations. He has not bothered to take timed counts on any birds, and this disturbed me. The timed counts are important, and will be more important when the birds shift more towards surface feeding. I was able to demonstrate the importance on several birds we watched today, so Hopefully he will start doing more timed observation counts. Otherwise, a very pleasant morning. Wind now blowing pretty well, but warm. Walked to end of Village Flats (so named), then along sandy ridge to large lake, and across large, gently sloping Eriophorum-Carex meadow to camp. This latter looks like Red-back area, and Paul says they are as dense here as anywhere. That was not too dense - perhaps 1 pr. per 400 m. of walking. Photographed long-tail jaegers, then returned to camp for lunch. Used the quieter part of the afternoon for an hour of sleep; then took