{"id":2591,"date":"2023-09-17T01:54:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T05:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:14:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T16:14:43","slug":"saturday-september-16-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/saturday-september-16-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, September 16, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Temp in the 50s, mostly sunny, light West wind<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not a great start!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My flight from Philly to Chicago was slightly early<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the time, his flight flies across southern Pennsylvania, but today it took the northern route and we flew over Presque Isle State Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Chicago\/Anchorage flight was about an hour late. Then my rental car was not ready when I arrived and I had to wait another half-hour or so for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got to the hotel, unpacked some things and headed out to shop for food for Adak. However, my Garmin GPS went on the fritz and I had to use my phone instead. But since I didn’t have a mount for it (unlike the Garmin), I had to be constantly looking down to see the directions. Not a good way to drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I managed to get the shopping done, but had no time to go out birding. I was meeting fellow Pennsylvania birders Gerry and Linda Kruth for dinner. They are joining me on the island for a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had a nice dinner and I went back to the hotel and crashed (not the car — me!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday’s flight to Adak arrived a little early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the way in, we got a wonderful look at Mt Sitkin (the active volcano about 30 miles east of Adak).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We got to our rental houses, unpacked the essentials and put away our food and headed out to do some birding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not much to report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was balmy, and we didn’t find any birds of note. Along the way we erected four bird feeders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I showed Gerry and Linda some of the locations and we walked out the Clam Lagoon Peninsula. No shorebirds…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only 16 species, all expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can see my eBird checklist at https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S150078574<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will be doing a much more thorough search tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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