Seward, Alaska
Tuesday, May 1, clouds gave
way to sunshine by afternoon
Tidelands:
100s and 100s of GREATER
WHITE-FRONTED GEESE and CACKLING GEESE
2 HUDSONIAN GODWITS!
5 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS
1 WHIMBREL
5 WESTERN SANDPIPERS
2 DUNLINS in breeding plumage
dozens of BLACK-BELLIED
PLOVERS and PACIFIC GOLDEN-PLOVERS
Neighborhood:
6 pm, about 50 SANDHILL
CRANES flying north high overhead
11:30 pm GREAT HORNED OWL
hooting from Mt Marathon, Jupiter in southeast sky
Wednesday, May 2, 34ยบ and
sunny!
First RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD
reported at Bear Lake
Tidelands:
One SNOW GOOSE with GREATER
WHITE-FRONTED GEESE
1 SANDHILL CRANE
4 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS
100+ CACKLING GEESE, a few
CANADA GEESE
Thursday, May 3, calm with
fog, new snow on mountains
VARIED THRUSH and ROBIN
singing
Followed MERLIN along
Ballaine Ave from car
Tidelands:
17 WHIMBRELS
continuing geese
Fourth of July Beach:
NORTHWESTERN CROWS with
nesting material
Neighborhood:
GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW in
breeding plumage
PINE SISKINS, RED-BREASTED
NUTHATCHES, VARIED THRUSH, ROBINS, SONG SPARROW singing, BALD EAGLES
Friday, May 4, hard rain
Neighborhood:
VARIED THRUSH singing in the
rain
6:30 pm 70 geese flying north
overhead
10:30 pm visual sighting of
GREAT HORNED OWL flying east from Mt Marathon along A Street
Saturday, May 5, rain, hail,
squalls, etc
Report of a pair of
THREE-TOED WOODPECKERS at feeder in town
Tidelands:
MARBLED GODWIT!
3 BLACK TURNSTONES!
3 BONAPARTE’S GULLS
200+ WESTERN and LEAST
SANDPIPERS
PACIFIC GOLDEN-PLOVERS
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS
SEMI-PALMATED PLOVERS
Continuing 6 SANDHILL CRANES
Continuing geese
Sunday, May 6 squalls
continue
Exit Glacier road open: many
RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS, VARIED THRUSH singing, 1 BELTED KINGFISHER
1 COMMON LOON in breeding
plumage at Fourth of July Beach, wail!
Tidelands:
5 HUDSONIAN GODWITS!
13 WHIMBRELS
1 NORTHERN HARRIER female
15 SANDHILL CRANES
1 MERLIN
DUNLINS and WESTERN
SANDPIPERS
2 GREATER YELLOWLEGS
SEMI-PALMATED PLOVERS
Humpback Whale sighted from
Waterfront Bike Path
Monday, May 7, sunny!
Exit Glacier to National
Park:
Many VARIED THRUSH singing
Several RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS
singing
Afognak Beach:
20 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS
4 WHIMBRELS
2 EURASIAN WIGEON
1 BONAPARTE’S GULL
50 WESTERN and LEAST
SANDPIPERS
150 ARCTIC TERNS
male NORTHERN HARRIER
Tidelands:
1 MARBLED GODWIT, continuing
9 WHIMBRELS
1 EURASIAN WIGEON
ARCTIC TERNS, one with sand
lance
1 SNOW GOOSE
Continuing 100 CACKLING
GEESE, 100 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE
10 SANDHILL CRANES
several small flocks of
WESTERN and LEAST SANDPIPERS
100 GULLS screaming along
lower Resurrection River
TRUMPETER SWAN pair continues to nest at Mile 1, Nash Road
TRUMPETER SWAN pair continues to nest at Mile 1, Nash Road
Happy Birding!
Carol Griswold
Seward Sporadic Bird Report
Reporter
Sorry, computer will still
not permit photos…
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