Spring and Summer Birds

White-crowned Sparrow (Kotzebue, Alaska)

Hoary Redpolls (Kotzebue, Alaska)

Killdeer (Kotzebue, Alaska)

Red-necked Phalarope (Kotzebue, Alaska)

Yellow-rumped Warbler (near Tok, Alaska)

Mew Gull (near Tern Alaska, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska)

Destroyed Sandhill Crane egg (Homer Alaska)

Belted Kingfisher (near Anchor River Mouth, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska)

Mew Gull Tree Ornaments (Eagle Lake, near Homer Alaska)

Sandhill Crane (near Homer, Alaska)

American Dipper (North Fork of Anchor River, near Homer Alaska)

Bonaparte’s Gull (Anchor Point beach, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska)

Golden-crowned Sparrow (near Homer, Alaska)

Greater Yellowlegs (Eagle Lake, near Homer Alaska)

Mew Gull chick (Eagle Lake near Homer Alaska)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Homer Spit, Homer Alaska)

Lincoln’s Sparrow (Diamond Creek Road, near Homer Alaska)

Hermit’s Thrush (Diamond Creek Road, near Homer Alaska)

Savannah Sparrow (Eagle Lake, near Homer, Alaska)

Black Turnstone, Surfbird, and immature Glaucous-winged Gull (Anchor Point Beach, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska)

Common Murre rack (Gull Island, Kachemak Bay, Alaska)

Semi-palmated Plover (Louie’s Lagoon, Homer Spit, Homer, Alaska)

Least Sandpiper (Louie’s Lagoon, Homer Spit, Homer Alaska)

Tree Swallow chicks (near Homer Alaska)

Sandhill Crane (near Homer Alaska)

American Robin chick (near Homer Alaska)

Male Pine Gosbeak (near Homer, Alaska)

Cliff Swallow (Tetlin NWR Visitor Center, Alaska)

While the Cliff Swallows built mud nests on the eve of buildings, the Bank Swallows build their nests – where else – in banks.

Juvenile Bald Eagle (Pickhandle Lake, Yukon Territory, Canada)

Bonaparte’s Gull (black head) and Mew Gull

Merlin at Eagle Lake

Goldeneye sp. Hatch Year Bird – Eagle Lake

Wandering Tattler along the rocks near the Deep Water Dock

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.

Semi-palmated Plover at Mud Bay

Song Sparrow among the rocks near the Deep Water Dock

Rock Sandpiper at Anchor River – in the summertime no less

Female Merganser swimming in the Anchor River

Same Merganser sitting on a log deciding whether I am a threat or not (NOT – but the bird didn’t know that).

Rusty Blackbird at Eagle Lake in late August

Northwestern Crow at the Anchor Point beach

Sandhill Cranes flying into Beluga Slough on the last Sandhill Crane population count day (Homer, Alaska).

One of 17 Sandhill Crane Colts at Beluga Slough on September 8 – the last population count day for Kachemak Crane Watch

Black-capped Chickadee hoping there might be some sunflower seeds on a feeder at our house – no such luck

Belted Kingfisher on a wire above a wetland just outside of Copper Center, Alaska

Juvenile Golden-crowned Sparrow at Eveline SRS on 16 September 16