Journal R.E. Johnson June 28 Anchitka Island, Alaska (cont.) other males away, it appears that these are 2 other's that keep trying to reach the ♀. Her mate is constantly on the more chasing them away. Most of the feeding & chase activities took place within 50 ft of the nest. Males displaying high over the nest were generally ignored. The Rock Sandpiper seen last night was on the dirt road with at least 2 young. As before, she went through vigorous displays to distract me from the young. Back to Longspur nest: ♀ off nest to feed at 11:16 AM. Again she remains close to nest & is accompanied by the ♂ during most of the time. She returned to the nest via a longer flight to the immediate vicinity of the nest & then several shorter ones (plus short walks). The male flew to a lúpine above the nest & sang just as she entered at 11:27 AM. Spent a good part of the afternoon in the White House attending to matters of red tape. Checked the Masonic Longspur nest at 5:30 PM - 5 warne[illegible]s, ♀ off nest. Began checking buildings in the area west of area G (see map under May 28) & north of Clinger Lake for Rosy Finch nests. Checked 15 bldgs & found 3 old nests. One was on a shelf in an underground building. Data for this area will be summarized when the census is completed. In the evening John Palmer (fireman) reported that a nestling rosy finch had been found in the old Officers Club by another fireman and was brought in. Also a dead one was on the floor. I returned to