I thought I would include photos of some of the birds I observed this spring and summer. The birds arrived early, and some in turn left early (like Tree Swallows). There has been heartaches (window strikes, death of a nesting crane and its eggs) and joys (young birds feeding in the yard, waiting for parents to bring food, chasing each other around). Enjoy!
![IMG_2814](https://i1.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_2814.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
White-crowned Sparrow (Kotzebue, Alaska)
![IMG_2874](https://i2.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_2874.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
Hoary Redpolls (Kotzebue, Alaska)
![KILLDEER](https://i2.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/killdeer.jpg?resize=281%2C300)
Killdeer (Kotzebue, Alaska)
![IMG_2989](https://i1.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_2989.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
Red-necked Phalarope (Kotzebue, Alaska)
![IMG_3349](https://i2.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_33491.jpg?resize=300%2C292)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (near Tok, Alaska)
![IMG_3416](https://i0.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_3416.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
Mew Gull (near Tern Alaska, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska)
![IMG_3428](https://i2.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_3428.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
Destroyed Sandhill Crane egg (Homer Alaska)
![IMG_3479](https://i0.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_3479.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
Belted Kingfisher (near Anchor River Mouth, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska)
![IMG_3497](https://i1.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_3497.jpg?resize=300%2C273)
Mew Gull Tree Ornaments (Eagle Lake, near Homer Alaska)
![IMG_4989](https://i0.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_4989.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
Sandhill Crane (near Homer, Alaska)
![IMG_3526](https://i1.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_3526.jpg?resize=300%2C234)
American Dipper (North Fork of Anchor River, near Homer Alaska)
![IMG_4961](https://i0.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_4961.jpg?resize=300%2C252)
Bonaparte’s Gull (Anchor Point beach, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska)
![IMG_4958](https://i2.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_4958.jpg?resize=300%2C300)
Golden-crowned Sparrow (near Homer, Alaska)
![IMG_4904](https://i2.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_4904.jpg?resize=300%2C200)
Greater Yellowlegs (Eagle Lake, near Homer Alaska)
![IMG_4892](https://i1.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_4892.jpg?resize=300%2C230)
Mew Gull chick (Eagle Lake near Homer Alaska)
![IMG_4883](https://i0.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_4883.jpg?resize=300%2C258)
Glaucous-winged Gull (Homer Spit, Homer Alaska)
![IMG_4325](https://i1.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_4325.jpg?resize=300%2C239)
Lincoln’s Sparrow (Diamond Creek Road, near Homer Alaska)
![IMG_4322](https://i1.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_4322.jpg?resize=300%2C271)
Hermit’s Thrush (Diamond Creek Road, near Homer Alaska)
![IMG_4299](https://i0.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_4299.jpg?resize=300%2C281)
Savannah Sparrow (Eagle Lake, near Homer, Alaska)
![IMG_4278](https://i1.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_4278.jpg?resize=300%2C202)
Black Turnstone, Surfbird, and immature Glaucous-winged Gull (Anchor Point Beach, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska)
![IMG_4129](https://i0.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_4129.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
Common Murre rack (Gull Island, Kachemak Bay, Alaska)
![IMG_4000](https://i2.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_4000.jpg?resize=300%2C263)
Semi-palmated Plover (Louie’s Lagoon, Homer Spit, Homer, Alaska)
![IMG_3963](https://i0.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_3963.jpg?resize=300%2C220)
Least Sandpiper (Louie’s Lagoon, Homer Spit, Homer Alaska)
![IMG_3875](https://i1.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_3875.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
Tree Swallow chicks (near Homer Alaska)
![IMG_3571](https://i1.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_3571.jpg?resize=225%2C300)
Sandhill Crane (near Homer Alaska)
![IMG_3539](https://i0.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_3539.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
American Robin chick (near Homer Alaska)
![IMG_3491](https://i0.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_3491.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
Male Pine Gosbeak (near Homer, Alaska)
![IMG_3284](https://i2.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_3284.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
Cliff Swallow (Tetlin NWR Visitor Center, Alaska)
![IMG_4983](https://i2.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_49831.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
While the Cliff Swallows built mud nests on the eve of buildings, the Bank Swallows build their nests – where else – in banks.
![IMG_3262](https://i2.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_3262.jpg?resize=300%2C276)
Juvenile Bald Eagle (Pickhandle Lake, Yukon Territory, Canada)
![IMG_5077](https://i2.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_5077.jpg?resize=300%2C233)
Bonaparte’s Gull (black head) and Mew Gull
![IMG_5164](https://i0.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/img_5164.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
Merlin at Eagle Lake
![IMG_5219](https://i2.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/img_5219.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
Goldeneye sp. Hatch Year Bird – Eagle Lake
![WanderingTattler](https://i2.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/wanderingtattler.jpg?resize=300%2C220)
Wandering Tattler along the rocks near the Deep Water Dock
![Steller'sJay-1](https://i1.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/stellersjay-1.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
Steller’s Jay stuffing its crop with corn. I wonder how many whole kernels of corn it can hold? Jack counted 20 during one foray.
![SPPL](https://i0.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sppl.jpg?resize=300%2C251)
Semi-palmated Plover at Mud Bay
![SongSparrow](https://i1.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/songsparrow.jpg?resize=300%2C262)
Song Sparrow among the rocks near the Deep Water Dock
![RockSandpiper](https://i0.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/rocksandpiper.jpg?resize=300%2C212)
Rock Sandpiper at Anchor River – in the summertime no less
![Merganser-4](https://i1.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/merganser-4.jpg?resize=300%2C220)
Female Merganser swimming in the Anchor River
![Merganser-3](https://i2.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/merganser-3.jpg?resize=288%2C300)
Same Merganser sitting on a log deciding whether I am a threat or not (NOT – but the bird didn’t know that).
![IMG_5744](https://i1.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/img_5744.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
Rusty Blackbird at Eagle Lake in late August
![img_6867](https://i2.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_6867.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
Northwestern Crow at the Anchor Point beach
![img_6842](https://i0.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_6842.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
Sandhill Cranes flying into Beluga Slough on the last Sandhill Crane population count day (Homer, Alaska).
![img_6817](https://i1.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_6817.jpg?resize=300%2C246)
One of 17 Sandhill Crane Colts at Beluga Slough on September 8 – the last population count day for Kachemak Crane Watch
![img_6781](https://i0.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_6781.jpg?resize=300%2C204)
Black-capped Chickadee hoping there might be some sunflower seeds on a feeder at our house – no such luck
![img_6594](https://i2.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_6594.jpg?resize=300%2C210)
Belted Kingfisher on a wire above a wetland just outside of Copper Center, Alaska
![img_7128](https://i1.wp.com/alaskabirder.taiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_7128.jpg?resize=255%2C300)
Juvenile Golden-crowned Sparrow at Eveline SRS on 16 September 16
I hope you enjoyed this year’s spring and summer birds as much as I did.
IT WAS A GREAT SUMMER TO BIRD
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