MacLean 1968 Journal 15 May Eagle Creek, Mile 105 - Steele Highway, Alaska. Arrived in Fairbanks at 2:00 A.M. Tuesday morning, 14 May. Eona left for Barrow with Bobby Fischer this A.M. - Since the Barrow airport is under repair and Wien is unsure of flying. Spent the morning in Fairbanks assembling gear - got a series of #2 bands from Dr. WEST. Departed Fairbanks about 1:00 P.M. I rode in a Fish and Game truck with Bob Weeden's assistant - Jerry McGowan - and M.A. from Missouri. Weeden took his truck, with Sandy Kogl. Saw a Lesser yellowlegs in a shallow pond at mile 28. Bird was quite tame, but flew away when I threw a rock. Next stop at a small lake: Eared grebes (4), northern phalaropes (4), widow, sculpin, bufflehead. All along the west part of the trip - many pintail, bufflehead. 1 ♀ Barrow's goldeneye. Saw a pipit foraging on floating ice which covered one end of a small lake. Many tree sparrows, white-crowned, tree swallows, robins. Fairbanks is virtually snow- free, with ice still on shallow ponds.