{"id":2644,"date":"2023-09-23T02:39:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T06:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2023-09-23T02:39:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T06:39:43","slug":"friday-september-22-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/friday-september-22-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, September 22, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Temps in the 50s, mostly cloudy, wind w 10-15 mph<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whoops! I forgot to take my weather photo this morning…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What a great day on Adak! Not a record-buster, but lots of good birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, I joined Aaron and his group walking the Lagoon marsh edge. We had the usual Pecs and Sharp-tails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we got down to the southwest corner, we saw one or two teal fly into the creek that feeds the lagoon there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aaron and I decided to walk up the creek and see what else was there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No sooner had we started than a large flock of teal exploded from up ahead — including the Garganey!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Garganey, Clam Lagoon, Sept 22, 2023<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Garganey, Clam Lagoon, Sept 22, 2023<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Late yesterday afternoon, Aaron had TWO Garganeys at Contractor’s Marsh! I could not relocate them today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later in the morning, I ate lunch at the National Forest. While I was there, the Yellow Warbler popped out (and right back in!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went back to town and at the High School Willows, I spotted the Brambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brambling, near the High School Spruces, Sept 22, 2023<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It flew from the willows down to the road and then up to the spruces and then back to the willows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I headed back up to Clam Lagoon. While looking at some Black-legged Kittiwakes on the lagoon, I heard Cackling Geese going over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleutian Cackling Geese, Clam Lagoon, Sept 22, 2023<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On the way to the Seawall, a Pacific Golden-Plover flew across the road and disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was hoping to find the Greater scaup flock on Lake Shirley, as they weren’t on the lagoon. Aaron had seen a Lesser Scaup in the flock which I wanted to add to my trip list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were not there, so I drove up to Lake Ronnie, where waterfowl from Lake Shirley often go to rest and get away from hunters, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the way up the road, I found three Common Redpolls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Common Redpoll, near Lake Smith, Sept 22, 2023<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There were only Mallards and Pintails on Lake Ronnie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, on the way back past Lake Shirley, the scaup flock had arrived — along with the two Tufted Ducks and the Lesser Scaup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plover reappeared were I had last seen it. It flew down to the lagoon shoreline, where I got a photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pacific Golden-Plover, Clam Lagoon, Sept 22, 2023<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was now late afternoon, so I went home, had dinner and then decided to go back out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went back up to Clam Lagoon to scope the feeding teal flock in hopes of seeing the Garganey not in flight. Unfortunately, the flock was not out tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I drove up the west side of the lagoon, I ran into Aaron who informed me that they just had a Skylark!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He gave me directions and off I went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found the bird!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eurasian Skylark, northwest of Clam Lagoon, Sept 22, 2023<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This bird looked very different from the one I had last September. Mine was an adult, this bird appears to be an immature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is last year’s bird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eurasian Skylark, Clam Lagoon, Sept 29, 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So my trip list exploded to 54 and my Year List to 81. My average Fall list is only 51…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can see today’s eBird list at https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S150530817<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Great day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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