Seward, Alaska
Sunrise 6:20 am, sunset 9:33 pm, for a total day length of 15 hours and 12 minutes. Tomorrow will be 5 minutes and 22 seconds longer
Temperatures remained chilly with overnight lows in the mid-20s and daytime highs in the mid-30s. Frost and frozen puddles greeted the mornings this week, but soon melted by midday despite the cold south wind. Rain, heavy at times, forecast by Wednesday and continuing for the next 10 days.
Sunday, April 19: Showers. FOS SAVANNAH SPARROW with a bright yellow eyebrow found flitting though the dead beach ryegrass, very hard to spot! Frost-nipped spears of green ryegrass poking through. A flock of 20 CACKLING GEESE circled from north and landed.
Monday, April 20: Partly sunny. 3 SNOW GEESE lingered, also circling and landing to feed. Five ARCTIC TERNS patrolled along the tide’s edge, at least one carrying a small fish and bragging about it.
SANDHILL CRANES reported flying north.
Lots of BALD EAGLE interaction between adults and immatures, and sorties to activate clouds of noisy Gulls including BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES at tide’s edge.
SAW-WHET OWL heard beeping away on Little Bear Mountain around 11 pm.
Tuesday, April 21: Sunny. Briefly heard Cranes flying north by Mt Alice. Ice finally gone from estuary pond revealing mostly mud and shockingly shallow. Arctic Tern overhead, what a beauty!
Wednesday, April 22: Happy Earth Day! Sprinkles then lashing rain by 6 pm. Pulse of GREATER YELLOWLEGS and GREEN-WINGED TEAL arrived overnight ahead of storm. FOS NORTHERN SHOVELERS.
Vs of CACKLING GEESE, 54 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE, small flock of SANDHILL CRANES. Three TRUMPETER SWANS honked faintly in the distance as they flew high overhead heading north.
Happy Birding!
Carol Griswold
Seward Sporadic Bird Report Reporter
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