Tuesday, October 24, 2023 TWO Sharp-tailed Sandpipers!

Seward, Alaska

What an amazing sight! TWO juvenile SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPERS feeding companionably at the tidelands, bulking up for the next leg of their journey south. Bon voyage wherever you fly!

Of note, yesterday a flash mob of about 18 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS raced overhead past Preacher Pond, the first of the fall season. Two pairs of late GREEN-WINGED TEAL joined the diminishing numbers of NORTHERN PINTAILS (also late), MALLARDS, and COMMON MERGANSERS hunkered down in the lee of the island at Preacher Pond. 

A WILSON’S SNIPE circled around the Lagoon at Dairy Hill Lane while a dozen MALLARDS stretched for silver salmon eggs below. Two silvers spawned near the culvert inlet, a race against time. 

Happy Birding!
Carol Griswold
Seward Sporadic Bird Report Reporter







 

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