I've been seeing and students have been telling me that there were little brown birds under the school. I finally was able to get photos of them this...
David Sibley wrote up an interesting blog yesterday and posted it on his web site at: http://sibleyguides.blogspot.com/ about the House Sparrows in Shishmaref....
At this time of year there are usually several Emails from "outside" birders requesting info. about the Nome birding scene. I leave tomorrow on an extended...
hello there, I recently came to Nome (first time to Alaska) for a few weeks for work. I am looking for a local birder with information where the spots to...
After this last Friday's strong southerly winds blew the ice out from the shorefast ice forming a fairly large lead, seagulls made their way back. My...
Yesterday, after the south winds, April 20, there was a sighting of Cackling geese on the north East side of Chevak. A sighting of ducks,(need to identify...
Yesterday, we sighted a couple shovelers and a couple Pacific Golden Plovers. More Cackling geese sighted today. 37 degrees today. Heatwave after a cold...
Yesterday, I saw a snowy owl 10 miles south east of Chevak and two red foxes. And a flock of Ptarmigans. Today, I saw another snowy owl 3 miles northeast of...
We saw two flocks of geese from a distance yesterday. Did not identify from a distance. Saw seven whitefront geese today flying north over Chevak. Another ...
I recently found out that on May 10, 2008, the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve Visitor Center is hosting a field trip celebrating Internatinal Bird...
Flocks of Whitefront, cacklers, lesser canadians, black brants, sandhill cranes, are everywhere. I just saw my first swan just now about half mile south of my...
May 6 - White-fronted Goose - flock of 7 May 7 - Sandhill Crane - flock of ~30 May 8 - White-crowned Sparrow - 1 singing Fox Sparrow - 2 feeding American Robin...
Finally got some new faces to look at and it was pretty exciting to me. Started off chasing around a Varied Thrush, which I was able to photo posted it to my...
And May 8 I saw a flock of about ~25 Canadian geese fly over Nome. May 9: 2 pair of pintail ducks and half a dozen Canadian geese on Centercreek Rd. They're...
On May 10 birders Alice Sullivan and Laurie MacNichols identified the following: 2 Re-Necked Phalaropes 7 Northen Pintails 2 Greater White-front Geese 1...
First of all, HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all the mothers out there!!! I want to ask first if someone who knows calls well enough to help me know what to look for....
Bob Schutsky reports that the 4 Tundra Bean-Geese first found by Isaac Helmericks are still at Adak as of yesterday (11 May 2008). They were seen in flight...
Good afternoon birders, this is my first message to everyone. I spotted two American Robins here in Chevak this morning. Robins were rare about ten years ago...
May 11, approx. 8pm - literally thousands of Sandhill Cranes passed over the Snake River valley north of the Teller Road in the course of half an hour....
I took a ride towards the coast by snowmachine for a seal hunting trip and I saw Sabine's Gull's, Long and Parasitic Jeager, Mew Gulls, Galaucus Gulls, Artic...
Been a long time coming and the day I was waiting for came yesterday. Shorebirds finally made it into town yesterday on a nice warm sunny day with still plenty...
Went out today looking for new shorebirds and was somewhat disappointed. Lots of Western S.p. (the peeps in my last post that I couldn't identify), 4 black...
Greetings to all, I just got back from a boating trip along the Coast by Chevak and I saw more Spectacle Eiders, Common Eiders, and passing King and Stellar...
I got word that Adak is getting some FOS arrivals today (16 May 2008): Two Arctic Loons on Kuluk Bay seen from Palisades overlook, found by Bob Dittrick's...
Shishmaref figuratively had Northern Wheatears coming out of our ears today. They were abundant in town and around the airport. I chased one around thinking...
Yesterday I was pretty sure that I had seen a Savannah Sparrow. This morning I went out and walked the runway and found 1 by sight and song and two more by...
More new arrivals up here to the NW outskirts. I was able to confirm multiple Savannah Sparrows as well as a winnowing Wilson's Snipe this morning. Later in...
Has been a slow spring so far with mostly north winds but have managed to still get some pretty good birds over the past week. 1 Hawfinch 6 Brambling 2 Arctic...
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