I went out this morning and heard the nasal honk of the red-breasted nuthatch, and found one duking it out with the chickadees at my feeder off Gold Hill Rd. ...
Summer green is turning into the bright colors of fall...Birds scurrying everywhere..as we all are, to prepare for migration or wintering here in the Far...
yesterday, sept.18, I was outside under our big spruce tree filling our bird feeders when a nuthatch landed about one foot from my face! It just sat there...
Hey BorealBirders! Late this morning (probably ~11:30) I was standing in the parking lot in front of the UAF Patty Center and a Northern Hawk Owl flew past me....
I too have had a nuthatch hanging around for a few weeks. I've even been fortunate to see two at the feeder at the same time on two occassions last week. First...
The other day we went shooting at the Cushman Street Range - while we were shooting, we kept seeing a Gray Jay coming right into the Range. The sound...
The juncos disappeared from our yard about three weeks ago, but not long after the snow fell last week 3 or 4 started coming to our feeder. We haven't noticed...
I thought i'd seen the last of the swans this year but 150 swans flew over Tok yesterday and last night we heard swans overhead for about 10 min. There was a...
Hello, I haven't seen Juncos in several weeks. But we do have several boreal and black capped chickadees the last several days. I hardly ever see the boreals...
I have had unusually high numbers of black caps at the feeder since we started feeding this year, up to 25 from the normal 10 or so. The usual 8-10 boreals....
We have only regularly had three Black-Capped Chickadees, a Downy Woodpecker and a few pigeons still looking for food. With the price of seed, and the problem...
Saw a single magpie feeding on a road-killed squirrel on the south side of the main airport runway today at about 1:30pm. I think last year the last "fall"...
There has been a single magpie around Ivory Jacks (Goldstream Rd) since July. Still there yesterday.  Derek  "Use what talent you possess: the woods would...
Hey all, I got out to Harding Lake today. It was very busy with birds. I saw about 300 Tundra and Trumpeter Swans, 5-6 Common Loons, 20 Cavasbacks, 100+...
Nancy, Do the ruffed grouse come all winter? I believe I saw posts last year about it being around all winter, and other posts about having an "attack" grouse....
Steve, We have been fortunate to have ruffed grouse come to our feeder each winter (actually the area under the feeder) for several years now. As it gets...
I have 2 red fox sparrows, and 5 juncos at my feeder. All my juncos dissapeared for a while, and then these 5 showed up about a week ago, along with the...
I saw and heard a pair of robins yesterday in my neighborhood, in the Dale Road area. I have heard of other sightings of robins during the winter. But I never...
Greetings Boreal Birders, Judy and I had a late season Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dendroica coronada) visit our peanut butter log this evening (25 October)...
Hey all, On Friday and on Saturday (10/18) I found a Brown Creeper on one of the trails at the Birch Hill Cross Country area. It was making it's fairly typical...
Hey all, Today I confirmed that my friends who live down the Chena River from me have a Yellow- billed Loon hanging out in the limited amount of open water in...
Well, it looks like winter is here to stay a while. We have had several Black-Capped Chickadees, a couple of Redpolls, a male Hairy Woodpecker, a male...
Greetings Boreal Birders, Judy informed me the she had Two Yellow-rumped Warblers (Dendroica coronata) coming to the peanut butter feeder on Monday 27 October....
As the days become darker I have less opportunity for watching out for the birds, but did want to report on the Hairy Woodpecker that is coming regularly to...
We have at least four Ruffed Grouse coming around our feeders every morning and evening. One spends most of the time fanning his tail and shaking his ruff at...
There was a hawk owl perched at the top of a spruce tree at the intersection of Farmer's Loop and McGrath Road at 10:30 am on Tuesday, Oct 28. There was...