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MacLenn
1967
Journal
30 July
of the season. Took a good number of
feeling observations, then changed the
boards. Afterwards found 2 pustills;
took observations and photographed these,
than drove on to site II and made the
change there. Again - pectorals and semipale
in the marsh; red-backs and plovers on
the ridge. Still plenty of insect activity
evident on the ridge, although the tanglefeet
are still going down.
Spent the evening processing birds
with Esna. Stomach collection is up to
50 now.
31 July
Barrow, Alaska
Spent the morning finishing up backlog
of birds plus some red-backs that Tom
brought in. After lunch drove to Blooting
Station, then up spit toward Nuvuk with
Don, Tom, and Don Kangas. Large flocks of
Sabine gulls and Arctic terns have gathered
along the spit. Got good (I hope)
pictures of a Sabine gull and an
immature kittiwake that, for some reason,
refuses to fly until actually touched
(Don caught it by hand). Collected
1 kittiwake. Many jelly fish were washing
through the breach in the spit. Kangas
made a plankton haul there - caught