Alaska journal, v4432
Page 95
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MacLean 1967 Journal 16 July Barrow, Alaska Up late after a much-needed rest. Weather was bad: fog and rain. No good for Tipulio transect, so drove out with Edna and Tom to try to trap ptarmigan. Next East of AACS was hatching—watched a bird crawl out of the egg. Left Tom there to try the decoy fall trap and drove to the nest on Pitelka's Plot to dry the bow net. Set it and spent 20 minutes untangling the darn string, then drove to shooting station to pick up Beverly. Back to the nest—nothing, so brought the trap back. Found that Tom had left the trap set at the AACS nest and gone in. The adults had not gone on the nest, and 1 young was death, another nearly so. Removed the trap and drove in. As long as we could see the adult did not get on the nest. Next took mist net and several hardware cloth strips with monofilament loops out to the nest South of FDA. Found the bird still incubating, and caught it with the mist net. Drove in and fed this and a ? pectoral that Tom caught in the trapline. (gave them 6 Tipula