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Maclean
1967
Journal
[21 July] Washed tunas and 8 from road in Central Marsh - for berll's extraction. Returned about 6:30. Loused up my darn back removing crap from tracks of the wadell. took it easy writing notes and sleeping to try to let the back recover.
Much fewer birds in the area today, the conspicuous flocks of plovers and pectards are not to be seen.
22 July
Barrow, Alaska
Spent the morning working in the lab waiting for Mr. & Mrs. John Boyd - directed to us by laboratory of Biophysics, U. of A. He is a grad student with Schlaen at Johns Hopkins, working on environmental physiology of penguins. They brought some Penguins up to the L. of Z., and are now touring. Took them to lunch, for two captive red-backs, then took them to the field.
Weather - clear and windy, and few birds in the area. Dan and I did two km. habitat transects each in Holmes' Morass. Checked the plover nest on P's plot - now empty. Saw only a few plovers and red-backs in the Morass, and one small flock of