Hoeman . J. V. 
1964— Aleutians 
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"NOW* (another 1944 "CAPS!" down for point of limey rocV to e.) returning: 
we see a pair of red-breasted mergansers , another kittiwake, and what I 
suspect might have been e pr. of rosy finches. 
We return car, after collecting the set of golden plover eggs and 
photographing parents, and I check my fox sparrow nest, 4 e. The golden plover 
eggs were fresh. 
June 1? . 1964 
Skip breakfast, to make - walk this morning and find robin nest. 
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3 e on rafter of abn’d. house as I leave town — 9 not only hit my finger but 
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wouldn’t leave eggs till I pried beneath her* I go across old wooded 
"US Gov’t. Use at Yr. own ri«k“ suspension bridge, try in vain to find 
nest of scolding wagtails, md walk way out beyond a dead dredge west of the 
airport but see no new birds and find no more nests till returning I find 
2 coraon redpoll (I assume by lo se construction — fairly white-mmped) 
3 end 5 eggs end yellow warbler nest under construction, sll 3 in willows. 
Carry my plover eggs in bnocs cssp to keep them whole ae we take cab 
to atipont but wait over 2 hours for our DC 3 to finally depart. See Bex 
Thornes taking his polar bear and walrus heads he traded tobacco for out end 
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a boy about 8 says "My dad works on birds tool " Turns out he's West and 
we talk to his mother (slight, d rk-heired, interested) there too. They’re 
on one of these Arctic Tours with her folks. 
So we fly over Bering Sea and tt’s clear. At 1500’ we ean easily 
pick out walruses and seals on the edge- of the ice — the tusks of the 
former gleam in the sun! Jeep-- ns all different— many birds. 
At 1425 Ber. Sea Time I first sight St. Lawrence Is. and some 20 
