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MacPherson
1968
Journal
27 June) one of the slo moons.
28 June Barrow, Alaska
Funny day. In the morning it was very winy
with occasional snow flurries. Didn't hurry to get
into the field - wrote notes, processed berlise
yield until Pete returned from the traplines. Went
over to So. Drum Area to find a second egg in the
plover nest. Returned the vessel and walked our
with Pete to look for nests and watch birds. It
was very cold and winy as we started. Found a
4-egg puvillus nest at the So. end of the Drum area.
Watched the puvillus activity just So. of the Drum
area and concluded that it must be mostly for
naugher - non-breeding birds. Continued along the banks
of [illegible] Family Lagoon - found nothing new until about
1/2 way across the So. end of the lagoon, there found
a focus of bairdii activity and a 2-egg nest.
Circled back towards Micro-Mer - nothing there but 1
territorial pectoralis. Looked for white-rumps around
Micro-Mer - finally heard a display farther East
down Beach Ridge. Walked back through Drum
area. Safrail's helpers found a 2-egg bairdii
nest near where I removed a pair on the 20th;
weighed these eggs, then in.
The weather went from cold and winy to
pleasant to winy, and ended up snowing and
raining again. Redback activity is essentially over,
and the pectorals are in flocks; however there