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| 6/2/2017 thru 6/20/17 We traveled around Alaska! After a brief stop in Anchorage, we flew to Adak Island in the Aleutian chain where we met up with John of Zungunruhe Birding Tours and had a great pelagic trip (3 albatross species!). Thanks, John and the crew of the Puk uk! Then it was on to Barrow (phalaropes and eiders!), Nome (Bristle-thighed Curlew and Golden Eagle nest!), and finally out to the nesting cliffs of St Paul Island (Red-legged Kittiwake and puffins AND where we ran into a herd of 200 reindeer). Click on NEXT PAGE below to go back in time. More pics coming soon. |
| 6/9/2017: Barrow, AK continued: Still cold! Everything is in breeding plumage and we are enthralled with the new look. Long-tailed Duck , Sabine's Gull , Common Redpoll , Dunlin , Hoary Redpoll , and Glaucous Gull on nest. The sea is frozen but the tundra is slowly melting. |
| 6/8/2017: Barrow, AK: We made it above the arctic circle! 27 deg and blasting wind. We had to get out right away in 5 layers of clothing as we could see all sorts of goodies out our hotel window. WOW! Red Phalarope , Red-necked Phalarope , Snow Bunting , and Pectoral Sandpiper, all in breeding plumage! Also: Tundra Swan , Pacific Loon , Northern Pintail , Semipalmated Sandpiper , Greater White-fronted Goose , Brant , American Golden Plover , and Western Sandpiper. |
