{"id":1041,"date":"2016-09-22T05:20:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T09:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wednesday-september-21-2016\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T07:37:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T11:37:57","slug":"wednesday-september-21-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wednesday-september-21-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, September 21, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Temp in the 50s, mostly sunny, Wind W 15-25 mph<\/p>\n

We checked the feeders and Sweeper Cove. Nothing new. The high tide made Sweeper Creek shorebird-unfriendly.<\/p>\n

So we checked the High School Willows (nothing) and then the High School Spruces. As I scanned the trees, I saw a gray shape that wasn’t there previously! I got the scope on it and discovered an accipiter. The bold facial pattern led us to believe it was a Northern Goshawk! But, after posting the photos to the IDFrontiers listserve, it was pointed out to us that it was a female Eurasian Sparrowhawk (which looks like a small Goshawk)! This should be the first accepted North American record!!!!! (John Puschock had one a few years ago, but it was not accepted by the Alaska Records Committee and there were at least two sight records from Attu.)<\/p>\n

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Eurasian Sparrowhawk, High School Spruces, September 21, 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

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Eurasian Sparrowhawk, High School Spruces, September 21, 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

For more details about this sighting, go to https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/eusp\/eusp.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Not a bad bird for our penultimate day!<\/p>\n

We checked every tree we could find today, hoping it would be perched in one of them, but no luck.<\/p>\n

Speaking of raptors, you can never have too many photos of Peregrines. This one was circling me at Clam Lagoon today — I guess he couldn’t find any shorebirds to catch.<\/p>\n

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Peregrine Falcon, Clam Lagoon, September 21, 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

At the Seawall, we had a flock of 30 Ruddy Turnstones. No other shorebirds today.<\/p>\n

Also, at the Seawall, I spotted an albatross way out, but could not determine the species.<\/p>\n

Our trip list is now 52.<\/p>\n

We leave tomorrow around 6 pm and expect to arrive home late Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

I will post our wrap-up blog on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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