Thursday 8 May 2008

8th May 2008 Sitka until midday then sailed south

Pacific Diver 20
Great Northern Diver 20
Short-tailed Shearwater 50,000 ex.
Pelagic Cormorant 15
Great Blue Heron 1
White-fronted Goose 8
Black Brant 500
American Wigeon 15
Green-winged Teal 30
Pintail 40
Shoveler 10
Scaup 20
Lesser Scaup 12
Harlequin Duck 2
Bufflehead 2
Red-breasted Merganser 4
Goosander 2
Bald Eagle 25
Least Sandpiper 10
Western Sandpiper 20
Rock Sandpiper 50 ex.
Dunlin 1
Short-billed Dowitcher 6
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Black Turnstone 300
Turnstone 1
Surfbird 40
Arctic Skua 1
American Herring Gull 4
Glaucous-winged Gull 50
Kittiwake 5
Guillemot 1,000
Marbled Murrelet 60
Ancient Murrelet 300
Cassin's Auklet 150
Rhinoceros Auklet 50
Tufted Puffin 40
Feral Pigeon 1
Rufous Hummingbird 2 ex.
Belted Kingfisher 1
Violet-Green Swallow 5
Wren 3
Hermit Thrush 2 ex.
Varied Thrush 5 ex.
American Robin 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6
Golden-crowned Kinglet 2
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Townsend's Warbler 2 ex.
Raven 20
Northwestern Crow 1
Starling 12
Pine Siskin 6
Savannah Sparrow 6
Golden-crowned Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 4
Dark-eyed Junco 1

Humpback Whale 40 ex.


 Sitka


 Bald Eagles at Sitka

 Townsend's Warbler at Sitka

 Golden-crowned Sparrow at Sitka


 Golden-crowned Kinglet at Sitka

American robin at Sitka

 Sitka

Song Sparrow at Sitka

High tide Wader roost at Sitka






 



 
 
Black Turnstones & Rock Sandpipers at Sitka
 
 
 
 






 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rock Sandpipers at Sitka



 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Surfbirds at Sitka
 
 

 
Black Turstones at Sitka

Male Rufous Hummingbird at Sitka



Savannah Spaarow at Sitka









Lesser Scaups at Sitka

Raven at Sitka

Departing Sitka
 


 
 
Humpback Whales surrounded by Short-tailed Shearwaters


Megaflock of Short-tailed Shearwaters

Adult American Herring Gull
 



First-summer American Herring Gull

 Sunset on Alaska