Sunday There is a nice group of about 30 sparrows (White-crowned, Golden-crowned, Lincoln's) and a few Orange-crowned Warblers at the recycling plant at the...
RBA * Alaska * St. Paul Island, Pribilofs * August 31, 2008 * AKSPI 08.08.31 Hello Birders, this is the St. Paul Island rare bird alert for the week of August...
Acting on Dave's posting I drove out behind the airport. At the point where the pavement ends, (end of the double yellow line) near the fuel tanks, there was a...
Very quiet in the evening. Three birds 1 light gray Gyr Falcon hunting the bluffs/shoreline to the south of Kincaid Park. 1 Golden-crowned Sparrow, 1 Dark-eyed...
Tuesday at Gambell has 25-30 NE/NNE winds and I didn't have too much hope for any Asian landbirds, but during the late morning I found a BROWN SHRIKE bordering...
Paul Lehman
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Sep 3, 2008 12:05 am
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Seward, Alaska Sporadic Bird Report Sunrise 6:56 am, sunset 8:56 pm, length of day 14 hours; tomorrow will be 5 minutes and 24...
On a hike to Hanging Valley (Eagle River) today (Tuesday) we observed a juvenile Sharp-shinned Hawk. There was a band on its left leg. Though close enough...
Huffman & Birch area @ noon today. Had a Varied Thrush fly through the yard and a flock of (50+) chickadees, nuthatches, juncos, & warblers. 5:30pm @ Potter's...
September 3 has been a very good day at Gambell, with the following: WILLOW WARBLER: all day moving all over the near boneyard, finally seen by everyone....
Paul Lehman
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Sep 4, 2008 2:09 am
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Well we didn't have quite the number of birds today on Saint Paul Island but we did get a few good ones ourselves. The best bird by far was an adult CURLEW...
still a few birds about it's been blustery. winds out of the east to 20 some knots for a couple of days. ... Subject: eBird Report - Deadhorse to Franklin...
Hi Birders, Just found out that the 49th Supplement to the AOU's Checklist of North American Birds is out. The checklist has been added to and, in some cases,...
Wednesday afternoon's Dusky Warbler at Gambell turned in to TWO birds that evening as a second bird was found 2-1/2 miles away, in the "revetments" south of...
Paul Lehman
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Sep 5, 2008 2:15 am
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Calm and partly cloudy today (Friday) at Gambell. We first found a PECHORA PIPIT (annual in fall since 2003) in the circular boneyard, then it moved to the far...
Paul Lehman
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Sep 5, 2008 11:38 pm
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A pair of immature Sharp-Shinned Hawks were banded at Campbell Airstrip on the east side of Anchorage late Tuesday morning (9/2). However birds banded in this...
Tonight on my ride home, I stopped to check out the bird scene at Goose Lake and found a female merlin catching and eating dragonflies. I observed her for...
My son and I went for a walk on the beach this afternoon and found this Short-tailed Shearwater (Puffinus tenuirostris) swimming along the shoreline. It was...
Hi Birders, Checked to see what's on the two Wasilla downtown lakes. Both had too many RN Grebes to count, most transitioning to winter plumage. Lake Lucille...
All of the good Asian passerines that were here at Gambell on Friday departed that night, under calm winds and partly cloudy skies. The only new landbird to...
Paul Lehman
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Sep 9, 2008 4:48 am
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RBA * Alaska * St. Paul Island, Pribilofs * September 7, 2008 * AKSPI 08.09.07 Hello Birders, this is the St. Paul Island rare bird alert for the week of...
I have posted photos of two birds that were flying with a flock of chickadees on Sunday in south Anchorage, and feeding at a lilac and bird feeders of chipped...
The "green" bird is a Ruby-crowned Kinglet. I'm not sure about the gray bird, possibly an Orange-crowned Warbler. Chris Maack Anchorage On Sep 8, 2008, at...
This morning I saw a pair of spruce grouse on the upper hillside above Upper O'Malley. The pair were on Longhorn, between the fork with Trail's End Road and...
In the late evening on September 10 a large, dark and pot-bellied snipe was flushed out of the cut on Hutchinson Hill (the NE Point on the island). We quickly...
Gavin Bieber
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Sep 11, 2008 9:13 am
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Almost an afterthought with the Snipe around but a nice Dusky Warbler was found in the wild celery patch near Webster Lake this evening. This represents only...
Gavin Bieber
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Sep 11, 2008 9:16 am
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In the 30 seconds it took to dash through the sideways rain to my car after work yesterday I though I head a pipit. Sure enough, this morning along the...
We covered the area thoroughly in the early morning and again in the evening. All of the migrants from yesterday appear to have left the island. We did find...