Journal each of these. Checker baird ano puilla nests found by Custer with 3 and 2 eggs, now 2 and 2! In general, shorebird activity in the Drum area has picked up, but is still not high. After Dinner lay down to rest and couldn't get up again. Felt like I had a bug of some sort. the number of jaspers in the area has picked up, but I have a feeling that a great deal of nest preparation is due to least weasels. We know that there are many weasels and few lemmings in the area - they have to be eating something. Safrail is putting protective wire cage over his sandpiper nests. If preparation continues, it must be weasels. 22 June Barrow, Alaska Even windier today. Spent the morning sorting 800 samples. Went out to the Drum Area with Dave to collect bairdii nests. (See species account.) Checked Tom Custer's nests: the puilla is now empty; the bairdii still 2 eggs and incubating. The incubating bird gave a very well developed distraction display, so I don't think it is a raven nest. Went into Barrow and spent the evening getting completely caught up on