Alaska journal, v4432
Page 71
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Maclean 1967 Journal 25 June] on specimen material. After dinner walked our past banded baird nests and checked traplines IX and X. Westler was again cold and foggy - not much activity. 26 June Barrow, Alaska Made a nest check before going to bed, and another first thing in the morning. Long incubation stands seem to be emerging, but not clearly 12 hours or some other simple pattern. Went our again to check traplines IX + X. Watched 2 bairds feeding between the lines, then walked in along family Lagoon. Found a 4-egg semi-pal nest about at the latitude of BACS, and another in the Drum area close to camp. Spoke w/ Brewer re. the problems of the owl girl. We decided to take a local survey flight to look for nests, then fly to Warnwrights and back to look for concentrations of owls. Took off just after lunch. Looked for the Wohlslag Slough nest without success, then carefully searched around the gas well. Lots of owls, but no nests. Looked long enough to convince ourselves. About this time the owl girl asked where they keep the paper bags on the airplane.