Mile 38, Seward Highway
On the way home from Portage,
we stopped at Tern Lake. The resident TRUMPETER SWAN family with a single gray cygnet
napped on a grassy island in the middle of the lake. I did not see the resident
Common Loon family that raised two chicks. More than 20 SCAUP with a few
AMERICAN WIGEON and small groups of MALLARDS dabbled near the shore. The light
was too dim to determine which Scaup species.
We then drove to the day use
area. A large school of Red Salmon swam near the observation deck. Just above
the bridge, beaver(s) had delivered freshly cut small trees and started to
build a dam. It looked like the middle section blew out and lodged against the
rocks below the bridge. Or maybe they
weren’t done yet and had started several dams. This could be a catastrophe if
they succeed.
A Red Salmon waited in a pool
below the lower pile of branches, considering a route up the cascading stream
through the branches to the lake.
Two RUSTY BLACKBIRDS and a
HERMIT THRUSH hopped along the tangle of branches, picking off flies. They flew
into the underbrush upon our approach, waiting for us to leave. So we did.
What a treat to have seen
them!
Happy Birding!
Carol Griswold
Seward Sporadic Bird Report
Reporter
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