R.E. Johnson 1968 Journal July 11 Anchorage to Seward, Alaska & return glaciers on Twenty Mile River. The road stops a couple miles short of Postage Glacier at a lake into which the glacier terminates & melts out. Icebergs float across the lake & lodge near the parking area. Burns Glacier joins Postage Glacier from the left. To the left of the lake is Placer Creek Valley & to the right Byran Glacier. After writing down the names of birds seen that summer by naturalists in the area, I hiked up the trail to Byran Glacier and then went cross country up the glacier until I was nearly as high as the 2 large waterfalls on the right of the lower part of the glacier. At this point I was just into the lower part of the icefall coming down from the left. From here I could see 3 adult & 1 young Mtn Goat on a sloping meadow high above the two waterfalls that I mentioned earlier. The whistles of Marmots could be heard from above and I believe I also heard a Pika near the base of the glacier. I had hoped to locate alpine bird species, especially rosy finches, but time did not allow climbing up the slopes beside the glacier into more alpine conditions. It does not appear that rosy finches descend the mtns with these large valley glaciers but that they remain in more typical habitat near the tops of the ridges above. The glaciers descend 1000 ft ([?]) below the alpine zone here. Bird species seen in the Postage Glacier area were few: Black-