{"id":3080,"date":"2025-05-25T02:36:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T06:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2025-05-25T02:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T06:37:50","slug":"saturday-may-24-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/saturday-may-24-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, May 24, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Temps in the 40s, overcast with a spot of sun in late afternoon, Wind WSW 10-40 mph<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"316\" src=\"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Weather_05242025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3078\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Weather_05242025.jpg 600w, https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Weather_05242025-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Weather_05242025-500x263.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Weather, May 24, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A Tundra Bean Goose was seen again this morning, but I failed to catch up to it. Maybe it will hang around for another day or two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, I did find a Common Merganser at Andrew Lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CommonMerganser_05242025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CommonMerganser_05242025.jpg 600w, https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CommonMerganser_05242025-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CommonMerganser_05242025-425x300.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Common Merganser, Andre Lake, May 24, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Common Mergansers are not common on Adak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also finally found an American Green-winged Teal for the trip list. I count these separately from Common Teals&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other exciting news is that one of the Hawfinches has found my feeder! Its nice to look out at a Hawfinch while eating breakfast or dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the birders left today, but Dave arrived. So right now there are only five birders on the island. More are coming on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I was taking Dave around this evening, Sam told us he had seen a Canvasback up Sweeper Channel #2. I need that for my Adak List, so we set out to look for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No luck. Maybe tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trip List is 65. Ebird says one less because they think Green-winged Teal and Common Teal are the same species (I don\u2019t!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s List can be seen at <a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S242272790\">https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S242272790<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Total Trip List can be seen at <a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/tripreport\/372779\">https:\/\/ebird.org\/tripreport\/372779<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temps in the 40s, overcast with a spot of sun in late afternoon, Wind WSW 10-40 mph A Tundra Bean Goose was seen again this morning, but I failed to catch up to it. 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