{"id":233,"date":"2012-09-24T10:54:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T14:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/sunday-september-23-2012\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T08:23:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T12:23:54","slug":"sunday-september-23-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/sunday-september-23-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, September 23, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

The day started overcast, light wind, and light drizzle. It morphed into partly sunny and very high winds — 30-40 mph!<\/p>\n

Several fishing boats came in overnight, so we were anticipating some output from the fish processing plant to the outflow pipe at the Sweeper Cove jetty. This would attract a lot of gulls, increasing our chances of spotting something different. Unfortunately, although we checked several times during the day, no outflow emerged, hence no new gulls.<\/p>\n

Up at Clam Lagoon, we finally spotted three Emperor Geese — a species we have had on every fall trip. We were beginning to worry…<\/p>\n

Out on the peninsula, the flock of shorebirds was down to one Red-necked Stint and two western Sandpipers.<\/p>\n

The seawall had grebes and loons and the usual suspects.<\/p>\n

As we drove back around, past Lake Shirley, a Peregrine Falcon made repeated passes over our truck, around the bluff and back.<\/p>\n

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Peregrine Falcon, Lake Shirley, 09\/23\/12<\/p><\/div>\n

We drove one more time up to White Alice for Snow Buntings, and this time, in 40 mph winds, we found them.<\/p>\n

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Snow Bunting, White Alice, 09\/23\/12<\/p><\/div>\n

As mentioned above, the fish plant outflow never appeared, but we had a small feeding-frenzy of gulls and kittiwakes out at the end of the jetty, allowing me to get some nice photos of kittiwakes. Here is a gallery of Kittiwakes.<\/p>\n

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Black-legged Kittiwake and Glaucous-winged Gull, Sweeper Cove, 09\/23\/12<\/p><\/div>\n

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Black-legged Kittiwake, Sweeper Cove, 09\/23\/12<\/p><\/div>\n

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Black-legged Kittiwake, Sweeper Cove, 09\/23\/12<\/p><\/div>\n

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Black-legged Kittiwake, Sweeper Cove, 09\/23\/12<\/p><\/div>\n

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Black-legged Kittiwake, Sweeper Cove, 09\/23\/12<\/p><\/div>\n

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Black-legged Kittiwake, Sweeper Cove, 09\/23\/12<\/p><\/div>\n

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Black-legged Kittiwake, Sweeper Cove, 09\/23\/12<\/p><\/div>\n

Hope this wind blows in something exciting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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