Seward, Alaska
Sunrise 4:33 am, sunset 11:28 pm for a total day length of 18 hours and 54 minutes, imperceptibly shorter than on yesterday’s Summer Solstice. Tomorrow will be a miniscule 12 seconds shorter.
Glorious summer day today! Blue sky with puffy white clouds, a high of 69 and a lovely breeze. A bonus is a full moon tonight!
The nesting TRUMPETER SWANS at the Nash Road wetlands are the proud parents of four tiny, adorable, white cygnets. I first briefly saw them on Sunday, June 16, heading to the nest for a nap after going out to eat.
Their little necks already seem be a bit longer after just a few days in the world. They are curious and alert, and seem very capable of imitating their magnificent parents, paddling around, pecking at horsetails and plucking up stirred-up salad greens. It will be fun to watch them grow this summer.
I again heard an ALDER FLYCATCHER at the edge of the wetlands, and saw a gigantic bull moose foraging in the water past his belly at the back of the pond.
In town at Two Lakes Park, I happened upon a “seeeee” of BROWN CREEPERS. Serendipity is the best way to find these highly camouflaged and uncommon little tree creepers. Fortunately, one descended from the treetop where I could watch it hop effortlessly along the bottom side of a spruce branch in a gravity-defying search for spiders and insects.
It obligingly flew to another tree at eye level and scoured the trunk bark all around. I could hear at least one or two others calling in their ventriloquist voices.
BROWN CREEPER
So close!
In the sun,
More than one.
No camera!
Happy Summer Birding!
Carol Griswold
Seward Sporadic Bird Report Reporter
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