{"id":3204,"date":"2025-09-26T00:49:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2025-09-26T00:49:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:49:46","slug":"thursday-september-25-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/thursday-september-25-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, September 25, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Temps in the 50s, partly cloudy, a few intermittent sprinkles first thing in the morning, Wind WNW 10-20 mph<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Weather, September 25, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yes! Yes! Yessssss!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ll have what she\u2019s having\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I can\u2019t see your pipit I\u2019ll find my own!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the above-mentioned sprinkles this morning, a nice rainbow formed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rainbow, September 25, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There were a lot of shearwaters passing by Kuluk Bay this morning, but very far out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There have been at least three different Brambling sightings so far. I saw one of them this morning (no photo op).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Marsh, I saw a ptarmigan flying hell-bent-for-election and soon saw why. A Gyrfalcon. The ptarmigan got away\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I added Snow Bunting to the trip list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There has been a lone Cackling Goose hanging around and from the looks I got it appoeared to not have the white collar typical for the Aleutian subspecies. However, I finally got photos of it today and can see just a bit of a white collar. So it is the Aleutian type.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cackling Goose, Seawall, September 25, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But the real excitement (for me, anyway) was a Siberian Pipit that I found on the east side of Clam Lagoon (not far from where I saw a Siberian Rubythroat many moons ago).!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These past few days, I have been driving very slowly, looking for lurking passerines along the edges of the road (a time-tested strategy out here).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw a small bird fly up from the road and into the grasses on the side of a bluff (it only flew up bout 10 feet). I didn\u2019t see much white in the outer tail feathers, which is typical for the longspurs out here. But It still looked \u201cdifferent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I waited it out and it popped back out and flew up the road about 50 feet. I saw through my binos that it was a pipit and the bold eye-ring jumped out at me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got out of the car and started photographing it. It continued up the edge of the road until flying off into the grasses well off the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note the following in these photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Dark back-streaking<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Bold eyering,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. White wingbars (as opposed to buffy)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Dark streaking underneath extending to as far back as the legs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Not in the photos, but little white on the outer tail feathers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    These are all hallmarks of Siberian Pipit (as opposed to American Pipit).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Siberian Pipit, Clam Lagoon, September 25, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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    Siberian Pipit, Clam Lagoon, September 25, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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    Siberian Pipit, Clam Lagoon, September 25, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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    Siberian Pipit, Clam Lagoon, September 25, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    This was a lifer for me and number 171 for my Adak List!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    What will I find tomorrow?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Vicky and Jen from Sitka arrived today for a week (well, 6 days because of the cancelled flight).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The trip list is 45.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Today\u2019s list can be viewed at https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S275490145<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Trip Report can be viewed at https:\/\/ebird.org\/tripreport\/413629?welcome=true<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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