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Maclean
1969
Journal
(5 June) around the Voth Area, still not
enough an Village Ridge to sustain
activity.
Spend the evening getting it all
down in the notes and processing the
day's impressive haul of specimens.
10 June
Barrow, Alaska
Weather very warm again. Went
our with F.A.P. and Hausee in the A.M..
Stopped at Britton's Area. Fewer birds
than yesterday, the flocks having dispersed,
but lots of activity. Frequent aerial
displays of alpina, bairdii, pusilla.
Sanderlings still there. Both red and last
(least 1) Northern Phalaropes. Redpolls
again very numerous - probably more so
than longspurs.
Moved up the road to Beach Ridge,
so. of F.A.A.. there we saw first alpina
nest-cup display of the year. Pectorals came
by in a flock of ca. 6; I collected 277 and
187. Also collected a mauri for Norton.
At this site saw both flocks and apparently
territorial pairs of alpina and pusilla.
We made predictions, backed by
6-packs of beer, of when the first
sandpiper eggs would be dropped:
Bjorn - Wednesday (tomorrow); Dave and