MacLean 1969 Journal 9 June Barrow, Alaska Awoke to find that the weather has broken. South wind, warm, sky clearing, and snow melting. And it's keep getting warmer. Went out with Hawes right after lunch. Joined Dave and Bjorn on Britton's Area. There saw sanderlings feeding quietly; alpina, bairdii, and pusilla all displaying; Melanotos - both sexes - present; red phalaropes flying about; saw several westerns and Norton saw a fuscicollis; both golden and black- bellied plovers; still lots of turnstones. And that is just the waders. Also saw long-tailed and pomarine jegers, short-eared out, old squaws, pintails, a white-fronted goose, lots of savannah sparrows, a redpoll .... in other words, things broke loose. Every bit of exposed ground had alpina and pusilla - usually displaying. The amount of exposed ground increased noticeably during the afternoon, but is still limited. A good stretch along the west side of the gas well road, where the melt is accelerated by dust blowing from the road, a little