On May 17th dad and I landed in Anchorage to meet Uncle and Grandpa on our why to Adak Alaska. We needed to overnight in Anchorage before we continued on to Adak. Dad and I meet someone there to go birding with while Uncle and Grandpa went shopping.
After the guy picked us up, we went to Kincaid park to see if we couldn’t get an American three-toed Woodpecker, Spruce Grouse, Boreal Chickadee, Black-capped Chickadee, and Black-backed Woodpecker. We managed to get all of those except for the Three-toed which proved quite elusive for the entire trip.
After we were done at the park we headed out to Flattop Mountain to look for Canada Jays and Dall Sheep. We got both the Jay and the Sheep although the Sheep were quite aways away.
We then went to Potters marsh where we looked for Northern Waterthrush and Arctic Tern. We got the Tern but it was still a little early in the season for the Waterthrush as it turned out.
We called it a day after that since it was getting late, but on the way back to our Air bnb we were told where we could go and have a fairly good chance of seeing a Moose. Since I had never seen a Moose in Alaska after we were dropped off we got Uncle and went to see if we could see any Moose. We managed to see 2 Moose. I ended up with 6 new state birds and 2 lifers.
