Date: 4/10/25 10:39 pm From: rainyday via groups.io <c_griz...> Subject: [AKBirding] Thursday, April 10, 2025 Greater Yellowlegs, Eurasian Wigeons, snow
Thursday, April 10, 2025 Greater Yellowlegs, Eurasian Wigeons, snow
Seward, Alaska
Sunrise 6:55 am, sunset 9:04 pm, for a total day length of 14 hours and 9 minutes. Tomorrow will be 5 minutes and 27 seconds longer.
Last night, I again heard the SAW-WHET OWL beeping from the Mt Marathon mountainside.
More snow squalls today, interspersed with sunny intervals. Temperatures remained cool with a low of 28 and a high of 35, and a northerly breeze. More of the same for the next week. Don’t put away that snow shovel yet!
Today, I refound the FOS GREATER YELLOWLEGS and EURASIAN WIGEONS that Robin C found yesterday. Among them were several pairs of recently arrived GREEN-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN PINTAILS, AMERICAN WIGEON, GADWALL, and many MALLARDS. I did not find the Canada Goose fly-over.
At the Mile 1 Nash Road ponds, a male BELTED KINGFISHER joined the resident TRUMPETER SWANS and the HOODED MERGANSERS. The only drama was the Swans’ much-heralded fly-over from the east side to the west, their wild bugling once again ringing off the mountainside. Just beautiful.
Spring snow, more wintry than winter. Just as we anticipated during our snow-free February, the other shoe dropped but with the joy of migration mixed with the snowflakes.
