activities
CBC Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
The most unusual bird of this winter’s Christmas Bird Count in Sitka was a Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch found by Jen Cedarleaf and Victoria Vosburg along the road to Herring Cove. Jen was able to get some photos of the bird and shared them with me so I could post them. This species is probably not too … Read more
CBC Flamingo
Conditions weren’t great for taking pictures on this Christmas Bird Count day. I ended up walking most of the neighborhoods between Halibut Point Road and Katlian Street (excluding only the Seward and Observatory Street neighborhoods along with downtown) in addition to Heart Lake to Thimbleberry Lake. My best sighting of the day was Lincoln’s Sparrows … Read more
Northern Pygmy-Owl
Last Friday I spent much of the day walking between Kamenoi Point and Mountain Point on Kruzof Island. Along the way I happened catch the movement of a bird flying up into a branch at the edge of the forest. Checking it out more closely, I discovered it was a Northern Pygmy-Owl (the first I’ve … Read more