Our Season's first houseguests from hell showed up, so we took a quick tour of town on Saturday afternoon. Anchortown looked gorgeous from the Arctic Valley...
There were 3 Herring Gulls on the roof of the Foam plant at the mouth of Ship Creek early this afternoon. There were at least a couple of hundred Bohemian...
I don't know about this particular territory but from my experience with eagles in the field, although their territory can be a couple miles of shoreline, some...
Greetings, Robin and I birded the beach at the head of the bay here in Seward yesterday and found some signs spring! In the beach rye grass we found four...
A friend and I will be owling at the Eagle River Nature Center tomorrow morning, meeting up there at 5 am. (No I am not a morning person, just an owl-lover)....
Find this pdf document by clicking on Files on this yahoo birding site. Designed to grow interest in birds for new folks, be useful for experienced birders,...
I tried to open the file and got the message that it was damaged and could not be repaired. Please advise. Chris Maack Anchorage ... [Non-text portions of this...
Make sure you have the latest Adobe reader...it is a PDF file. I printed it just fine. Thanks Cecily!! Dody ... -- Dody http://kettleralaska.blogspot.com/ ...
Sunday was a good day at the Kenai Flats. The following list is compiled from a Toby Burke family outing. 1 Long-tailed Duck 25 Mallard 18 NORTHERN PINTAIL 3...
Robin spotted the female HOODED MERGANSER last night and this morning at the pond directly south of the Stash and Store sign at mile 3, Seward Highway. VARIED...
A tip o' the hat to Mr. Whitekeys for his efforts to lively up the AK birding world. Does birding really need to be so serious? Last I heard, the best ...
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-* Alaska * Fairbanks and Interior * April 4, 2007 Birds Mentioned White-Winged Crossbills Bald Eagle Mew Gull Common Goldeneye Great-Horned Owl Boreal Owl ...
BPIFers, Keep your eye's peeled for banded birds. Sorry for any cross postings. Dave SHOREBIRDERS: Please be sure to check the legs of Pacific Golden-Plovers...
On Tues. (April 3, 07) I spotted a Sharpie just outside a building on the UAA campus. He was sitting in a small Mt. Ash tree, probably scoping out some small...
The juncos have started singing regularly in the morning, and I heard the song sparrow outside my house singing. Usually there are two or three bald eagles ...
I saw Trumpeter Swans on both the upper end of Wasilla Lake off of Seward Meridian and at the outfall of Wasilla Lake off of Palmer Wasilla highway today about...
Deshka River First of Season: Snowy Owl, Dark-eyed Junco. Also, a martin that has been hanging out in my platform sunflower seed feeder...caught and ate a male...
Went for a walk yesterday to see if there were any snow bunting in the Plant Mterial Center fields. (Butte area near Palmer)No snow buntings, but there wer 12...
The 8 Canada Geese mentioned in Sunday's paper as touching down and disappearing from Westchester Lagoon Wednesday were probably same 8 resting on the ice at...
At least 3 pintails at Eastchester this afternoon along with one very small Canada/Cackling (?) goose and the usual crowd of mallards and a few goldeneyes and...
On my way back from Kenai in search of buntings, I spotted a pair of Trumpeter swans at Cooper's Landing on April 18. This appears to be an earlier sighting...
Georgia, You must mean March 18 since April 18 is premature for the 2007 calendar. There have been all winter up to 12 swans at the Kenai Lake outlet, by the...
We looked at the swans t the Kenai Lake outlet in January or February and they were all Trumpeter which is the more expected species. Dave S. ... From:...
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Oops. I meant March 18. Thanks for catching my error. I only saw two and stopped to ID them just in case there was a rarity among them. Georgia ... From:...
Went to the airport ponds on monday and managed to find a greater yellowlegs and a pair of eurasian widgeons. The yellowlegs was in the freshwater and the...
Went to the airport ponds on monday and managed to find a greater yellowlegs and a pair of eurasian widgeons. The yellowlegs was in the freshwater and the...
A pair of Ravens are nesting in the Chester Creek Green Belt, behind the Community Garden Plots at C Street & 19th. The nest is in full view of traffic on C...