http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/ Alaska Birding Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:12:55 GMT ak_zukes http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4680 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4680 Windy....Whittier 2 Harlequin Duck 2 Bald Eagle 1 Black-legged Kittiwake 10 Herring Gull 5 Glaucous-winged Gull 1 Glaucous Gull..2nd year 4 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:35:31 GMT Aaron Lang http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4679 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4679 This morning Robin spotted an ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD on our feeder in Homer! It's been coming and going since 9:30am (it's 10:30 now). Between feedings it sits in Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:59:06 GMT Bob Winckler http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4678 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4678 Hi Birders, I've just received word from Dan Gibson (UAF Museum) that the Alaska Checklist Committee has voted unanimously to add Marsh Wren (Cistothorus Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:18:44 GMT George Matz http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4677 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4677 Below is the executive summary for the spring 2009 Kachemak Bay Shorebird Monitoring Project. This was a Kachemak Bay Birders citizen science project. If Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:22:13 GMT lani.raymond http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4676 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4676 Winter is creeping in, but we still have wonderful birds!! In Mainer Lagoon on the 28th 2 minima CACKLING GEESE were seen and on the 31st a BAR-TAILED GODWIT Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:00:31 GMT BOB http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4675 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4675 Dave Sonneborn, his friends Dave and Troy and I made a try at seeing the Marsh Wren. It was a beautiful calm day out there. Perfect for hearing or seeing our Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:56:30 GMT ak_zukes http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4674 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4674 It's definitely getting to be winter. A couple of lakes still have a small amount of open water. East Chester\Chester Creek area Mallard Greenwinged Teal Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:04:39 GMT Aaron Lang http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4673 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4673 Homer: Beluga and Lampert Lakes have frozen. Mud Bay is beginning to freeze with ice accumulating on the shore. Despite this late shorebirds are persisting Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:42:28 GMT ursus_8 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4672 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4672 A first year white-crowned sparrow was at my house in Oceanview all day. It was hanging out in the brush pile and feeding below the feeders in the back yard. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:18:23 GMT akredgreen http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4671 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4671 Dave Porter and I went out with Wren discoverer, Dan Crowson, and despite valiant effort in winds gusting to 50 and unsupportable thin ice over the marsh, we Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:23:44 GMT c_griz http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4670 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4670 Robin Collman reported a male HOODED MERGANSER at the Stash 'n Store pond, mile 3 1/2 Seward Highway, this morning, October 31, feeding on small fish. Check Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:42:43 GMT Bob Winckler http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4669 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4669 Hi Birders, Yesterday, Betty Friest and I went out onto the Palmer Hay Flats to try and find a possible Marsh Wren, originally found by Mat-Su Birder Dan Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:14:02 GMT Aaron Lang http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4668 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4668 Hi Paul, Given the date (October 28th) odds are reasonably good that your hummingbird was something other than a Rufous, the species which nests as close to Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:38:33 GMT paulmc46 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4667 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4667 This afternoon (Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009) around 4:13 pm I saw a hummingbird visiting my blooming nasturtiums near Westwind Drive and Spinnaker Drive. The Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:01:46 GMT Ken_Russell@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4666 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AKBirding/message/4666 hotline: Fairbanks and Interior Alaska date: October 26, 2009 number: (907) 451-9213 to report: (907) 451-9213 coverage: Fairbanks and vicinity transcriber: