{"id":1049658,"date":"2016-07-25T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=ee206f2a25aa7582da837b50299dfabe"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:12:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:12:59","slug":"alaska-9th-june-day-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/alaska-9th-june-day-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska – 9th June (Day 13)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another day spent birding the Council Road which runs east from Nome, thats not a negative comment, its a fantastic birding road as it extends along the length of Safety Sound with the sound to the north and the open sea of Norton Sound to the south. Today we birded as far as the summit at Mile Post 53 Council Road, the summit had a true mountain feel to it with short tundra like habitat and bare rocky slopes dominating, here the highlights were Northern Wheatear, Horned Lark, American Golden Plover and Semipalmated Plover.<\/p>\n

We spent the rest of the day, after birding the summit, along the shores of Safety Lagoon scanning intently for Emperor Goose but with no luck. We enjoyed great views of many of the species we had seen previously and spent some time with the fantastic Long-tailed Skua breeding on the tundra and had good views ofYellow Wagtail of the racetschutschensis,sometimes split as Eastern Yellow Wagtail.<\/p>\n

Other species that were unusual for the day included four (three male and a female) Redhead, a rare bird in Nome, a summer plumage Pacific Golden Plover and seven Sabine’s Gull.A fantastic site was a pair of Bristle-thighed Curlew coming in off the sea in the evening and giving their distinctive penny-whistle like call.<\/p>\n

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Short-eared Owl, fairly abundant around Nome due to a good vole year<\/p>\n

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Short-eared Owl – Nome<\/p>\n

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Short-eared Owl – Nome<\/p>\n

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Cackling Goose of race minima – Nome<\/p>\n

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Long-tailed Skua on chimney of one of the houses. The Alaskan birds are of the race pallescens which is paler than the race seen in the UK – Nome<\/p>\n

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Pacific Golden Plover – Nome<\/p>\n

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Yellow Wagtail of race tschutschensis, sometimes split as Eastern Yellow Wagtail – Nome<\/p>\n

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Long-tailed Skua – Nome<\/p>\n

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Long-tailed Skua – Nome<\/p>\n

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Long-tailed Skua, note that this individual is eating Cranberries (or similar) from the tundra – Nome<\/p>\n

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Long-tailed Skua – Nome<\/p>\n

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Long-tailed Skua – Nome<\/p>\n

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Long-tailed Skua – Nome<\/p>\n

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Long-tailed Skua – Nome<\/p>\n

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Long-tailed Skua – Nome<\/p>\n

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Dunlin of the race articola – Nome<\/p>\n

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Western Sandpiper – Nome<\/p>\n

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Western Sandpiper – Nome<\/p>\n

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Western Sandpiper – Nome<\/p>\n

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Long-tailed Skua – Nome<\/p>\n

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Long-tailed Skua – Nome<\/p>\n

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Redhead – A scarce bird in Nome<\/p>\n

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Redhead and Greater Scaup – Nome<\/p>\n

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Arctic Skua – Nome<\/p>\n

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Arctic Skua – Nome<\/p>\n

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Arctic Skua – Nome<\/p>\n

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Arctic Skua – Nome<\/p>\n

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Arctic Skua – Nome<\/p>\n

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Sabine’s Gull – Nome<\/p>\n

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Another day spent birding the Council Road which runs east from Nome, thats not a negative comment, its a fantastic birding road as it extends along the length of Safety Sound with the sound to the north and the open sea of Norton Sound to the south. Today we birded as far as the summit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1921,"featured_media":2196618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Hkks9YWAoTE\/V4v3lYcsP1I\/AAAAAAAAF_4\/52pHzGSSt_gpij-iBe6HK6EkOqVgAg4DgCLcB\/s640\/D39Q1871-2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[733,1030,1130,1469,1900,5185,1953,755,833,1388,1686,184,7084,707],"class_list":["post-1049658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-american-golden-plover","tag-dunlin","tag-eastern-yellow-wagtail","tag-emperor-goose","tag-golden-plover","tag-horned-lark","tag-long-tailed-skua","tag-northern-wheatear","tag-pacific-golden-plover","tag-redhead","tag-semipalmated-plover","tag-short-eared-owl","tag-skua","tag-yellow-wagtail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}