Alaska journal, v4429
Page 475
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Maclenn 1966 now, I think, 3 pairs of golden plovers in polygons between family lagoon and micro - wet. Population of these has picked up markedly of late. Mike found one of these nests. Found an (I think) Old Squaw nest - only 7 eggs, the. Bird flew up in my face, then over ground and disappeared over rim of Honeybucker lagoon. After lunch went out to West end of Beach Ridge West of Micro-Mer to set our tangle foot traps - strips of masonite 10cm x 10cm - covered with sticky resin and set into soil even with surface, then covered with "quarces" of chicken wire for protection. Hopefully, surface active insects will walk onto the surface so that we can obtain relative numbers by harvesting these traps. Set our 3 in meadow funora and 3 on drier ridge funora. As we were doing this Weaver came over to kibbitz, and reported a 1 egg nest he had scried up on the way. Went to check it - a bairdi's, it is, then found a 2 egg bairdi's nest 40m, from that. Also stalked a completed golden plover nest and a 1 egg