Had an interior-subspecies Gray-crowned Rosyfinch at my feeder on Bayview Ave, Homer, this morning. Still plenty of redpolls, but no recent sightings of the...
Monday afternoon I was birding out on the mudflats just off the end of the airport in seward. it was a very low tide, and i spotted 3 dunlins feeding far out...
Despite the wintry weather this evening, 5 first of season LAPLAND LONGSPURS, including one female, picked and poked between the ice and snow on the dirt road...
Friday afternoon Toby and I visited Salamatof Seafoods for an hour at the mouth of the Kenai River. Gull numbers were nice and there is open water from just...
I work in downtown Anchorage and from my view of the Cook Inlet I have seen an Osprey on two occassions over the past week cruising over the mudflats. Once...
On the 3rd from Mariner Park, 15 Common Eiders were seen pretty close in and about 12 Steller's Eiders a little farther out. Also seen were: Pigeon Guillemot,...
Today's run by the Fish Hathery turned up: 2 Red-breasted Mergansers 1 Barrow's Goldeneye 3 Female Goldeneyes 1 Common Merganser 18 Mallards Spenard Crossing: ...
I have been getting reports from people concerned that the large numbers of (land) birds that were present before Saturday's ashfall are missing. They are not...
Today I saw eight swans on Mud Lake. They were in a very small opening in the lake and I was viewing them from the Butte itself which is several miles away....
There has been a black-capped chickadee with a deformed bill at the Kachemak Heritage Land Trust office (downtown Homer) the past two days (April 6,7). I...
First Gadwall I've seen this season was swimming with the Goldeneyes and Mallards at Spenard Crossing, Anchorage today. John Fugett [Non-text portions of this...
Tonight around 6:30 there was a flock of 18 gulls standing on the ice in the middle of Potter Marsh. John Fugett [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Two pairs of NORTHERN PINTAILS spotted this noon at the tideflats with a dozen MALLARDS. Keep an eye out for more! Eight WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS fed on fallen...
Didn't see the Gadwall, but there was a Northern Shoveler on the ice at Spenard Crossing, along with increasing numbers of Common Goldeneye, Mallards, a few...
April 8, 2009 Around 4:00 this afternoon, with Ken and Connie Tarbox watching, the male CASSIN'S FINCH flew down into the bird feeder enclosure to dine on...
The Hawkwatch is getting better by the day! Tuesday Dr. Pete and I were treated to a day where we didn't even wear gloves most of the day. Hawkwatching in...
For the past couple of days I've seen several flocks of mostly surf scoters flying past the Douglas bridge. Not huge numbers, but each flock is about 20 to 50...
On April 8th at about 9 PM I was looking out my back door in the Roger's Park neighborhood and spotted 14 geese flying north. They were high and back-lit, but...
Rare gull watching is getting more difficult by the hour. Toby Burke counted the gulls on the ground at the Kenai Flats and not even estimating the ones that...
There was a male Bufflehead and two male Northern Pintails among the Common Goldeneyes and Mallardsthis morning. Did not see the Northern Shoveler or Gadwall....
On Wednesday, Bob and Brad counted 49 raptors including the First Northern Harrier of the Season! Thursday, we had NINE hawkwatchers including Bob, Larry,...
At 6:45 PM there were two Hawk Owls on Point Woronzof Road behind the Anchorage airport. One was haunting both sides of the road at the Point Woronzof parking...
Yikes! I re-read my last post and I exaggerated. How unlike me. So I went out in the driveway, paced it off, and the vole was probably SEVENTY feet from us...
Hi Birders, The ice is slowly melting and waterfowl are descending on the Valley! Seen this afternoon, from 350-400 Mallards at Snodgrass Field (next to the...
So, in January we saw 2-4 Robins, which was unusual, but there were other sightings of one or two here and there. In February, for a day or two, there were 13,...
I'm guessing they wintered over, although 56 all in one yard seems crazy. People were reporting them throughout the long cold winter. Chris Maack Anchorage ......
A pair of Redheads and a scaup have joined the Mallards, one Northern Pintail, Bufflehead, Common and Barrow's Goldeneyes at Spenard crossing this morning....
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