Maclean 1966 wind. Time to eat and put mice away then to bed. 6 August Barrow, Alaska Slept late, then [illegible] prepared tangle feet and loaded them into the vessel, which then declined to start. Got some help after lunch, and went out to make the change. Another decrease - there was not too much there. It is amazing how rapidly the decline took place. Things [illegible] still could pick up if the weather improves. This, however, brings up the question of how real the apparent mid-summer food abundance is if a spell of bad weather can knock the insects down like this. Secondly - in bad weather do the insects become entirely unavailable or are they just not flying, but still available on the surface. One possibility - wait for some bad weather, then till a sample for stomach contents. In this cool, windy weather bird activity was low. Saw a flock of B.P.d. feeding along N. edge of Central Marsh.