Seward,
Alaska
Sunrise
9:13 am, sunset 6:08 pm, for a total day length of 8 hours and 54 minutes. Tomorrow
will be 5 minutes and 16 seconds shorter. The week of clear, cold weather seems
to be changing to warmer with precip of some sort.
The
recent appearance of thin ice on local ponds, wetlands, and the Lagoon has
locked waterfowl out of their usual pantries, concentrating them in the moving
waters at the inlets and outlets, or pushed them to the ocean.
Silver
salmon, which returned in near record numbers this fall, continue to school up
in the Lagoon and migrate up freshwater streams. Their colorful corpses and
scattered eggs provide welcome nutrition to a host of birds including BALD
EAGLES, RAVENS, NORTHWESTERN CROWS, MAGPIES, KINGFISHER, DIPPERS, STELLER’S JAYS, MALLARDS,
COMMON GOLDENEYES, BARROW’S GOLDENEYES, and perhaps HARLEQUIN DUCKS and GREAT
BLUE HERONS.
The
Lagoon beach by Benny Benson Park off Dairy Hill Lane, and the beach in front
of Scheffler Creek, south of the harbor uplands are good places to spot salmon
and their feathered predators.
Happy
Birding!
Carol
Griswold
Seward
Sporadic Bird Report Reporter
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