- RBA * Alaska * Fairbanks and Interior * October 1, 2005 * AKFA0510.01 Birds Mentioned American Robin Slate-Colored Junco Sharp-Shinned Hawk Northern hawk Owl...
Ken_Russell@...
Oct 1, 2005 7:38 pm
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Birding activity on Big Lake has drastically decreased with only a few remaining on the lake: Red-necked grebes, Horned grebes, Mallards, Common Mergansers,...
A very quick Sunday afternoon tour of Anchorage ponds didn't produce anything rare, but here's part of what's out there: LAKES HOOD & SPENARD: Scaups,...
On which lake, and what area of the lake was the black scoter? Thanks, H. Frenier...
Hannah Frenier
hannahfrenier@...
Oct 4, 2005 3:37 am
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The Black Scoter, The Horned Grebes, and the female Long Tailed Duck were all on the West side of Lake Hood. Pretty much due east of the road to the Post...
October 5, 2005 Seward, Alaska Sporadic Bird Report 46º, gray skies, intermittent rain As I was walking along the sodden trail at Two Lakes Park today, a...
Friday, October 7, 2005 Seward, Alaska Sporadic Bird Report 9 am, 40º, overcast skies, warming up by noon to 50º, partly sunny, calm The hummer was seen...
HI AK Birders, I've had the pleasure to toddle around Ship Creek between the air base and the river mouth a couple times this past week. It's rather...
A band of hardy souls eventually found each other at Elmendorf Hatchery and had a great morning of birding: EDF Ponds Belted Kingfisher (female) Barrow's...
I was curious if any of you knew of the Alaska big day record? The only one I'm aware of are the recent results of the Farthest North Birdathon with Arctic...
Hi Paul, Unless a successful assault on the record was made in 2005 (I am not aware of any such attempts -- but Luke DeCicco may have been busy!), then the ...
Thanks for the info, Gordon. Is there any process in the ABA for submitting a big day record for a big day that happened in 2001? I don't know how much you all...
The big difference between ABA Big Days and Birdathons is the time requirement. ABA Big Days are one calendar day up to 24 hours beginning at 12:00:01 AM. The...
Ken_Russell@...
Oct 12, 2005 5:58 pm
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... Ahh...see, that's the part that I wasn't aware of. I tried to find that type of information on the ABA website, but it's hard to find any actual "rules"...
Boy, find a new toy and end up spending all your time there... Anyway, I'm heading down to the Alabama coast next month for work and was hoping to get a little...
One adult male. A month early, based on 10 yrs of good records and 14 more of not so good. They disappear from my portion of NE Anchorage between April and...
Paul, I'm at the national Watchable Wildlife Conference in Virginia right now. A big focus of the conference is on birding and wildlife viewing trails. Alabama...
Paul, Here is the link to the ABA Big Day reporting page: http://www.americanbirding.org/bigday/index.html On that page is a link to the 2005 Big Day Form: ...
Hey, Well, Nick Hajdukovich, Nancy and Jim DeWitt and I set that record (130) this spring. One team in one car in 24 hours but not a BigDay because we started...
Hey Luke! Good to hear from you. I figured once I read this month's "Redpoll" that yours was the group who broke the birdathon record. That Valdez- FBX route...
Paul, Ya, I have no idea what Luke's plans are for the spring (or when he's back etc.) But I do know that I would thoroughly enjoy taking a trip to Seward for...
A little bird told me about the chatter going on about my team's Birdathon this year, and I had to join in. Because we wanted to see how well we could do under...
Nancy, Sounds like you, Luke, Nick, and Jim had a great day, and could have done even better by starting sooner in the day. This Valdez north route sounds ...
Reports like this from Gustavus makes it look like a very interesting birding spot -- at least to this southcentral birder. Gordon Tans Anchorage ... From:...
Birding is slow this time of the year.While watching the baseball game today, Chris Maack and I started an 'Arm-chair list' of the various birds fluttering...
Hi Birders, The ABA just passed on the following item from the Cornell Lab. Cheers, Bob W. =============== The following news release from Cornell University...
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