{"id":3572,"date":"2026-06-02T09:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2026-06-16T08:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:18:14","slug":"saturday-may-30-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/saturday-may-30-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, May 30, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Temps in the 40s, Mostly cloudy, Wind NNE 5-15 mph<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"251\" src=\"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Weather_05302026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Weather_05302026.jpg 600w, https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Weather_05302026-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Weather_05302026-500x209.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Weather, May 30, 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No last-minute surprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But what a great trip!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I ended up with 88 species. My best spring trip ever. My biggest year list on Adak was 94 in 2017, so I only need 7 year birds this fall to beat that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I got five-and-a-half lifers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lifers:<br><strong>Falcated Duck<br>Great Knot<br>Fieldfare<br>Common Gull<br>Eurasian Hobby<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Semi-lifer:<br><strong>Common Tern<\/strong> (subspecies <em>longipenis<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Life list now 739.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adak list now 176.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been coming out here since 2005, and to get 5 lifers is just ridiculous&#8230;<br>The last time I had that many was in 2007, when I got 7. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not only were there a lot of Asian strays, many of them were not just singles. Bramblings, Hawfinches, Wood Sandpipers, Red-necked Stints, Temminck&#8217;s Stints, Common Greenshanks, Tundra Bean Geese, Tufted Ducks, Siberian Sand-Plovers, Eurasian Whimbrels, Terek Sandpipers, Common Gulls (one seen after I left), Black-headed Gulls, Great Egrets (Asian subspecies?) all had more than one individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other Asian strays (singles) included Garganey, Falcated Duck, Great Knot, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Eurasian Hobby, and Fieldfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also saw 2 auklets (Crested and Parakeet), which is rare from land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a wonderful trip with a lot of birders (many whom I have gotten to know on Adak).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My fall trip this year will be from September 23 to October 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NOTE: I saw a Cackling Goose with a neck collar. I sent the info to the Birdbanding Lab and am waiting for the results. When I get the info, I will add it to this post. So check back in a few weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UPDATE: The above mentioned banded goose was banded near Walnut Grove, San Joaquin County, California on Nov 3, 2025. It is a female, hatched in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temps in the 40s, Mostly cloudy, Wind NNE 5-15 mph No last-minute surprises. But what a great trip! I ended up with 88 species. My best spring trip ever. My biggest year list on Adak was 94 in 2017, so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/saturday-may-30-2026\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-may-30-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3578,"href":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions\/3578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}