Date: 4/12/25 10:41 am From: Lynn Fuller via groups.io <lfuller56...> Subject: Re: [AKBirding] Thursday, April 10, 2025 Greater Yellowlegs, Eurasian Wigeons, snow
FOS (for me) Ruby-crowned Kinglet today outside of Palmer.
On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM rainyday via groups.io <c_griz=
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> Thursday, April 10, 2025 Greater Yellowlegs, Eurasian Wigeons, snow
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> Seward, Alaska
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> Sunrise 6:55 am, sunset 9:04 pm, for a total day length of 14 hours and 9
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> Last night, I again heard the SAW-WHET OWL beeping from the Mt Marathon
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> 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!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> For photos, edits, and updates, please visit my blog at
> https://sporadicbird.blogspot.com.
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> Happy Birding!
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> Carol Griswold
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> Seward Sporadic Bird Report Reporter
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