Date: 9/27/25 11:41 pm From: rainyday via groups.io <c_griz...> Subject: [AKBirding] Saturday, September 27, 2025 Storm-petrels, Sea Mammals
Saturday, September 27, 2025 Storm-petrels, Sea MammalsSeward, Alaska
Sunrise 7:55 am, sunset 7:43 pm for a total day length of 11 hours and 47 minutes. Tomorrow will be 5 minutes and 29 seconds shorter.
The phenomenal FORK-TAILED STORM-PETRELS are still flitting and pattering in Resurrection Bay. I counted at least 70 from my favorite viewing spot at the pullout on Lowell Point Road just south of the seafood processing plant. One even circled around my car when I first arrived! Though they frequently flew over the rocks below me, they never landed.
This pocket is protected from the north wind. I marveled at the ever- changing patterns in the gently rolling water, a mesmerizing and lovely background for the dainty tubenoses.
The BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE numbers continue to diminish, concentrated in a small, raucous flock.
A raft of four Steller Sea Lions lazed past, then a Sea Otter, smacking on a prickly sea urchin. Yesterday, a Harbor Seal joined the fray, poking its head up like a periscope, nostrils opened wide to breathe, then firmly sealed as it silently submerged.
Just as I was about to leave, a resident SONG SPARROW hopped up on a nearby rock. He will probably still be here, long after the flashy visitors are gone.
