again warm. It seems that birds have been piling up with the warm weather. The sudden onset of cold weather may cause a mass exodus and the end of the season. 22 August Barrow, Alaska And then there was one. Tom Custer finished the third run of the lemming trapline (very few animals caught) and departed for California tonight. He took with him the frozen tissue samples that we have been saving for the Wilson biochemical taxonomy study. Spent the morning in the lab, since Tom needed to wrestle to bring in traps. He didn't get up until 10:30, and then just sat around! Wrote up notes, hand-picking soon ... went to hand-feed my alpine and found chironomis larvae on his bill. After lunch drove our Gaswell Road to take soil samples and see what was in the area. Watched a flock of c. 30 Snow buntings go by. Much interaction amongst the birds. They worked along the ground - birds moving 50-100 m. and jump. took 8 cores from low-polygon troughs on either side of the road near