Seward, Alaska
Sunrise 6:55 am, sunset 9:04 pm, for a total day length of 14 hours and 9 minutes. Tomorrow will be 5 minutes and 27 seconds longer.
More snow squalls today, interspersed with sunny intervals. Temperatures remained cool with a low of 28 and a high of 35, and a northerly breeze. More of the same for the next week. Don’t put away that snow shovel yet!
Today, I refound the FOS GREATER YELLOWLEGS and EURASIAN WIGEONS that Robin C found yesterday. Among them were several pairs of recently arrived GREEN-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN PINTAILS, AMERICAN WIGEON, GADWALL, and many MALLARDS. I did not find the Canada Goose fly-over.
At the Mile 1 Nash Road ponds, a male BELTED KINGFISHER joined the resident TRUMPETER SWANS and the HOODED MERGANSERS. The only drama was the Swans’ much-heralded fly-over from the east side to the west, their wild bugling once again ringing off the mountainside. Hauntingly beautiful.
Last night and again tonight, I heard the SAW-WHET OWL beeping from the Mt Marathon mountainside.
Spring snow, more wintry than winter. Just as we anticipated during our snow-free February, the other shoe dropped but with the joy of migration mixed with the snowflakes.
Happy Birding!
Carol Griswold
Seward Sporadic Bird Report Reporter
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