Alaska journal, v4429
Page 463
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Maclean 1966 Collected them all. Drove on a bit, ate lunch, then drove some more. Discouraging - there is just not much Down there. No Baird's, 1 semi- pal, very few plovers and turnstone, occasional Phalaropes. Collected a few feeding observations, and found but more nest - a 2 egg phalarope, 07 in attendance, on South footprint lake. Collected 9 birds, then came in. After dinner lay down for a while which stretched out, then began work on today's stomachs while my laundry was washing and drying. Finally quit early on: Barrow, Alaska June 23 Weather worse. Spent the morning working on yesterday's stomachs. there are some good ones, including a phalarope with 339 Chironomus larvae, and several new unidentifiables. In the afternoon gave up on waiting for the weather to improve; packed up the vessel with the vacuum insect Sampler and headed for Voth area. And the weather got worse. Changed up the motor and played around with the devise - trying to manipulate