Rusty Blackbird
along the Kusawa road ( first dip from the highway)
May 11 2013
Friday, May 31, 2013
townsend's solitaire
townsend's solitaire
kusawa ridge
May 11 2013
positively identified by song by Mary Whitley.
Monday, May 27, 2013
Friday, May 17, 2013
yukon bird club, May 17 till May 20
The yukon bird club is requesting people to look at birds this weekend.
So i thought i walk to Kip's puddle two times a day.
today
-10 am around 20 ducks, among them some shovelers and one bird of prey.
and some little birds.
-6 pm a pair of mallards, a junco, 3 shovelers 2 males one female, 3 blue-winged teals, at least one female and one male, and two shorebirds ( see picture), and 3 other ducks.
i heard the Robin.
So i thought i walk to Kip's puddle two times a day.
today
-10 am around 20 ducks, among them some shovelers and one bird of prey.
and some little birds.
-6 pm a pair of mallards, a junco, 3 shovelers 2 males one female, 3 blue-winged teals, at least one female and one male, and two shorebirds ( see picture), and 3 other ducks.
i heard the Robin.
i watch for half an hour,
upon seeing me, first the mallards left
then the 3 unidentified ducks
after say 10 minutes the shovellers left
the teals which were first hidden from view, screamed loudly and eventually left
the shore birds would fly up a bit and land again, and when they left i left.
Sorry for disturbing their peace.
Kip's puddle is a 5 min. walk ( half a km) from my house
the weather was windy, cloudy ( too cold for May, but not freezing)
and the snow is long gone here.
May 18, 9am till 9.30am
It's already a whooping high of 7 degrees C.
calm and partly sunny
2 male pintails and one female, when they spotted me they took off and with them what sounded like the screamers of yesterday, 2 small ducks
3 shorebirds came and left ( maybe yellowlegs)
i heard juncos, robins and warblers, in a flash it looked like a yellow-rumped warbler.
May 18 evening 5 minute observation
windy and not much warmer, partly sunny
one duck only.
May 19 morning, 5 min observation
calm and partly sunny
a pair of green-winged teals
one shorebird
a grouse
May 20 morning
after night frost, pretty good weather
a pair of green-winged teals
a male mallard
a plover ( the shorebird)
juncos
a robin
a warbler
May 20 evening
super calm no ripple in the water, pretty good weather.
A northern harrier
and i don't know if she ( probably a female bird) flushed the ducks or i did)
2 ducks (probably the teals)
and a minute later 6 unseen small ducks flew away
several robins
a grouse
a shorebird
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
flycatchers
Say's Phoebe
Yesterday at the 911-pond there where lots of ducks and Bonaparte Gulls and
swallows, who moved around in a flock around the big pond. at one point overhead and around me.
For the flycatcher's , i do not know the one in the two top pictures. the bottom one i think is a Say's Phoebe
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Ring-necked Ducks
A few days ago i did here the frogs croaking at Kip's puddle, but for ducks only a pair of Ring-necked Ducks remains
May 14, 2013
Monday, May 13, 2013
Eurasion Wigeon
Alaska Highway around Cracker Creek
Saturday, May 11, 2013
canvasback
one single redheaded duck at the little pond in the first dip at the kusawa road
may 11 2013
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
horned grebe
Everdaay i walk out to Kip's puddle, everyday the amount of bird's seem to double.
Sunday ? around a dozen Green-winged teals and a pair of Mallards
Monday 2 dozen Green-winged Teals, 2 pairs of Mallards
Tuesday at least forty birds
Today what seemed like a hunderd, the Teals still there, but also American Wigeons, a pair of Northern Shovelers and two male Horned Grebes.
A robin singing in the highest spruce, and little songbirds in the poplars
Sunday, May 5, 2013
gulls
And the first gulls i seen around here this year
May 5 2013, Takhini river
Are they Mew Gulls?
mallard
May 5 2013
And suddenly the Takhini river is wide open..
This at the first look-out on the Kusawa road
At Mendenhall Landing, i always thought the Mendenhall river opens first, today the Mendenhall river had water and overflow, but the Takhini river wide open.
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Green-winged teal
Alaska Highway east of Mendenhal river
Not so much in the photo but when they took off, the green speculum , a rectangular patch on the wings was clearly visible.
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