Temps in the 40s, mostly cloudy, rare sprinkle, Wind WSW 10-15 mph

Not much new today. However, other birders keep seeing the Hobby… And I don’t!

I picked up White-winged Scoter and Thick-billed Murre today for the trip list.

The Common Gull was still at Clam Lagoon.

The only photo ops were of Bramblings and Hawfinches.

In the afternoon (after the plane left without Vicky and Jen, who chose to stay three more days!), they followed me around Clam Lagoon. When we got to the Blue Building Feeder, I showed them the pellets that I had mentioned in a previous post.

I had speculated that they were from a Short-eared Owl, but once I had the Eurasian Sparrowhawk at that location, I thought maybe that was the source.

Vickie pointed out to me that if the pellets have bones, they are from an owl. If not, they are from a hawk.

So we dissected one of the pellets. No bones.

I learned from some of the other birders here that had come out to Adak this winter to see the Sparrowhawk that it had been roosting inside the Blue Building. So we went inside and found lots of large poops and many pellets.

As much as I would like a nicer photo of that bird. I am not going to go in there when it is roosting.

The jet came and went today, taking home 16 birders. There are still a dozen or so out here, with more coming Saturday and next Wednesday!

I leave on Saturday…

The trip list is at 85.

This is now my best Spring Adak count ever!

You can see the total list at https://ebird.org/tripreport/525344?welcome=true

Note: I changed the Id on two previous reports. The Gray-tailed Tattler is a Wandering Tattler, and the Siberian Pipit is just an American Pipit. I updated the relevant posts. That did not change my species total, however.