{"id":2972,"date":"2024-10-02T02:08:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T06:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2024-10-02T02:08:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T06:08:42","slug":"tuesday-october-1-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/tuesday-october-1-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, October 1, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Good birds, bad photos…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Temps in the 40s-50s, mostly cloudy, rolling fog off and on, Wind SW 5-15 mph<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Weather, October 1, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mount Sitkin Sunrise, October 1, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After the usual rounds, I decided to go up to Andrew Lake to look for the Lesser Scaup that Aaron had reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While scanning a flock of Greater Scaup, I didn’t find the lesser, instead, I found a Tufted Duck! It was a female or immature with a scraggly tuft, but unmistakable. Too far for decent photo, but here is one anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tufted Duck (female\/immature), Andrew Lake, October 1, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I then headed f or Clam Lagoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had mentioned in a previous post about the Pectoral Sandpipers working the kelp beds on the Seawall. Well today, I was watching one feeding vigorously at one particular goody (don’t know what), when a Song Sparrow flew in and chased the Pec away and started in on the morsel itself! The Song is much smaller than the Pec, but this was his territory…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I was on the East Shore, Aaron called to say he had a Double-crested Cormorant out at the Loran Station. This would be an Adak bird for me. There are only two other Adak records from December 1984 and April 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I “raced” out there (knowing it would be the better part of an hour since Aaron had seen it).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No luck. There were plenty of cormorants sitting on the rocky island that he had seen it on, just no Double-crested…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh well, it wasn’t a total waste, as i picked up Northern Fulmar and Laysan Albatross for the trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I returned, I went back out to Andrew Lake, where the other birders had seen a Ring-necked Duck. An adult male, no less. I have seen only one other on Adak (May, 2015) and it was a female.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I ran into Aaron’s group along the way and we all went out together. We stopped where I had seen the Tufted, but no luck. I continued out to where the Ring-neck was reported and found it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ring-necked Duck, Andrew Lake, October 1, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, by the time Aaron’s group caught up to my location, the duck had swum behind a point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I told them I was going to check Lake Jean (a southern adjunct to Andrew Lake) for the Tufted while they hoped for the Ring-neck to reappear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I drove out Lake Jean, and out at the point where it joins Andrew Lake, I found a Tufted (Notice that I didn’t say “the Tufted.”).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This one was a male!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tufted Duck (Male), Andrew Lake, October 1, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Definitely a different bird than earlier. I did not see the female with this flock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I called Aaron and his group came down and they all had nice looks at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I headed back to town, freshened up, had an early dinner, and reviewed my photos of the day. I couldn’t find the cormorant in any of the photos I took out at the Loran, but Aaron recommended that I go back out in case it had just been fishing and had returned to the roost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I did. Still no luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trip List is 57. The Year List is 88.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s List: https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S197204673<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trip List: https:\/\/ebird.org\/tripreport\/277586?welcome=true<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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