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Journal
106
R.E.Johnson
1968
June 19 Anchitka Island, Alaska (cont.)
the ocean at a point sw of the triangulation
marker marker #103 on the US Corps of Engineers 1:25,000
topo map. I walked west along the shore &
into the ocean
Dr.J. walked east. I waded out beyond the
pt.where we parked the snow-track to a flat
rock barely exposed above the water on which there
were 15 Oystercatchers. The rock was covered with
empty (freshly eaten) limpet shells & a smaller
# of mussel shells (approx. 10:1, limpets:mussels).
Two Arctie Terns flew over head calling. Three
or Harlequin Ducks flew out from the
ocean side of the rock. Eight Glaucous-winged
Gulls were sitting on a nearby rock.
A pair of Mallard ducks, 2 or Pintails,10 or+
2pair of Common Teal were feeding in shallow
water amid projecting rocks in the next cove
west. Two pairs of Rosy Finches were seen along
the cliffs between the point & the creek
entering from [illegible] the large lakes we passed
which flows past several square peaked buildings
a short ways up stream.
We visited these huts later & all but
one had collapsed. That one had 3 old rosy
finch nests in it & one still contained an egg,
(probably of this years laying).
On the return trip, we saw a pair of Greater
Scap on one large lake & 10 Red-throated Loons on the