Although the weather was lousy, I (along with Bob Armstrong for most of way) walked out to the mouth of the Mendenhall yesterday and then back along the dike....
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Laurie Ferguson Craig
annielauriec...
Jul 2, 2002 7:53 pm
Paul, Thank you for posting the names of all the shorebirds I saw this morning! Please add dowitchers to the increasing numbers of birds seen on the tidal side...
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gwen baluss
gwenbaluss@...
Jul 2, 2002 11:43 pm
The Birds of Southeast Alaska checklist 2001 edition is finally published and available at the Glacier visitor center and the Juneau Ranger District. The cost...
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jsirm20
Jul 6, 2002 7:06 pm
Hello, Im new to eaglechat, and have enjoyed reading everybodys posts. Yesterday (7-5) while I was at the beaver pond by moose lake, a female Rusty Blackbird...
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Steve Zimmerman
callorhinus
Jul 8, 2002 6:42 am
On Saturday afternoon I took a walk to the mouth of the Mendenhall River. There were good numbers of ducks a few hundred yards before the mouth of the river...
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Mac Phail, Deanna K.
Deanna_MacPhail@...
Jul 11, 2002 4:17 pm
Lots of frantic parenting going on around Moose Lake this morning. Junco, Orange-crowned and Yellow-rumped Warbler fledglings were busily attended to. The...
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MacPhail
bandmac@...
Jul 16, 2002 3:50 pm
The population in Juneau is growing. Feathered young are everywhere. 5 am, on the beaver pond near the glacier visitor center - a Common Merganser fem. with...
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jsirm20
Jul 17, 2002 5:37 am
Hello, I have heard that there were Three Toed Woodpeckers nesting along the Eaglecrest road. I saw one 1.8 miles from the turn at N. Douglas this evening....
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jsirm20
Jul 18, 2002 12:08 am
The distance was 2.4 miles from the turn off from the Douglas Highway, sorry...
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paulms@...
paulms99824
Jul 18, 2002 12:26 am
Eagle Beach is now hosting large numbers of roosting black-legged kittiwakes - both adults and immatures. This AM there were about 400 or so in with large...
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jsirm20
Jul 28, 2002 9:45 pm
This morning along the North Douglas Highway I saw a bird, which I am sure was a Western Wood-Pewee, sitting on a power line. I got a good look at it, and its...
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Steve Zimmerman
callorhinus
Jul 29, 2002 9:18 pm
Hi, folks. Attached is a real mind-bender. The two files show an apparent Humboldt Penguin that was caught in a fishing net off Noyes Island. The pictures...
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Tracy&Kim Rivera
ccfishc@...
Jul 29, 2002 9:42 pm
Some more info on this bizarre incident......the bird showed up in the water within a purse seine net off of Noyes Island on July 18; the bird was released...
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David W Riccio
driccio@...
Aug 1, 2002 3:11 am
Crossbill in friends front yard, North Douglas -David...
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Mac Phail, Deanna K.
Deanna_MacPhail@...
Aug 1, 2002 9:42 pm
A splendid morning of banding at the Mendenhall site. We were simply awash in juvenile birds. Of course this is all relative. Apparently the other S.E....
1056
juneauart@...
Aug 2, 2002 9:21 am
Hi everyone. I had a pair of crossbills on my deck Wednesday afternoon. I was so shocked to see them as I have never seen one at my home before. I live at the...
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MacPhail
bandmac@...
Aug 3, 2002 6:38 am
Quiet and lovely this evening at Norton. One uncharacteristically silent male Belted Kingfisher. Female Hooded Merganser followed by three half grown...
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jsirm20
Aug 8, 2002 11:23 pm
This morning at low tide, there was a Slaty-backed Gull at the mouth of Salmon Creek, along with copious amounts of the regulars. Ian MacIntosh...
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Nina Mollett
nina.mollett@...
Aug 9, 2002 8:42 pm
Have you all seen this story about the toolmaking crow? Kinda wonderful. http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/08/09/crow.betty/index.html...
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Steve Zimmerman
callorhinus
Aug 10, 2002 6:15 pm
Hi, folks. Attached is a draft of the Juneau nesting season (June/July) bird observations. Also included are observations that Gus and Paul made on a trip...
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Kim Titus & Deb Rudis
akwildlife@...
Aug 12, 2002 7:19 am
To promote participation in birding, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is developing a free birding certificate program, Wings Over Alaska. Birders will...
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Bev Agler
skuas
Aug 12, 2002 7:06 pm
Hi all, Saturday mid-day. Paul Suchanek and I went out to the mudflats. We saw: 400-500 peep, mostly western and least sandpipers, with a few semi palmated 1...
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bfluetsch
Aug 12, 2002 7:30 pm
It is a little too big to be a Sharpe Shin Hawk, and too small for a Norther Goshawk, a Coopers Hawk maybe but the colors don't quite match Shibly. Merlins...
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bfluetsch
Aug 14, 2002 3:18 pm
Last evening, we had three of these hawks (we now believe them to be Sharpe Shin Hawks) in the yard. This morning, the world is less one Junko as the hawk...
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bfluetsch
Aug 14, 2002 3:25 pm
There are few berry's on Douglas Island and the bears are hungry. The last two days a bear has wasted a bird feeder and a suet basket. This has been the our...
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gwen baluss
gwenbaluss@...
Aug 14, 2002 10:07 pm
Juneau bears frequently hit feeders. I read that 30% of the bears that were shot in town had bird seed in their stomachs. Putting out seed and suet is ...
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gwen baluss
gwenbaluss@...
Aug 15, 2002 12:03 am
Additions to summer report. We banded an Alder flycatcher at the Mendenhall station (Moraine Ecology trail) on June 5. They were amazingly abundant later. Near...
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paulms@...
paulms99824
Aug 16, 2002 3:50 pm
The adult slaty-backed gull that Ian MacIntosh reported last week at Salmon Creek was still present as of yesterday (an immature glaucous gull has also been...
1069
davidsonne@...
Aug 17, 2002 7:54 am
Is that your first record for Upland Sandpiper? Dave...
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jsirm20
Aug 18, 2002 7:42 am
The Lesser black-backed gull, which I assume is the local resident gull, was at the mouth of the mendenhall river this morning, along with the regular mix of...
