Here we go again…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No birds from Adak today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why? Because I’m still in Anchorage!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The flight was canceled due to the crew being stranded elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Luckily, I was able to get a new reservation at the Holiday Inn Express and even got a rental car!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is when I would usually report the birds I had in Anchorage on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. Well, not much to report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let’s go back a day. Thursday night, I went to bed at 9 pm, planning to get up at 2 am for the car ride to the airport at 3 am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well… at 9:30 pm, the power went out! (I know, I know, too many exclamation points!) Over the previous two days, I had 4 power outages due to Ida. They generally lasted 5 to 10 minutes and no problems for me, as I have a whole-house generator that kicks in automatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, I assumed this would be the same scenario. No such luck. It lasted two hours. That would not have been a problem except the generator is located just below my bedroom window! So no sleep that night. Maybe 2 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So by the time I got to Anchorage on Friday and did my food shopping I was way too tired to go back out for birding. So no birds on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jump up to today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By the time I got my luggage back (the flight was cancelled after I had already checked in) and got a car, it was 11:30 am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I decided to go back down to Girdwood and see if I could rustle up a Chestnut-backed Chickadee (which I need for my Alaska list). No such luck. The birding was poor. My entire list for that area was 2 robins, 1 Varied Thrush and a magpie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I stopped at Potter marsh on the way back and got the usual suspects along with a flock of Greater Yellowlegs. At Ship Creek, there was a nice flock of Bonaparte’s Gulls (and the usual other stuff).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A make-up flight has been scheduled for tomorrow and I am booked on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By the way, there is a group of four other birders also going out on that flight, so I won’t be the lone birder out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So try again tomorrow…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Frank<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Here we go again… No birds from Adak today! Why? Because I’m still in Anchorage! The flight was canceled due to the crew being stranded elsewhere. Luckily, I was able to get a new reservation at the Holiday Inn Express … Continue reading