{"id":481,"date":"2014-09-12T07:19:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T11:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/thursday-sept-11-2014\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T12:59:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T16:59:36","slug":"thursday-sept-11-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/thursday-sept-11-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, September 11, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Arrival&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our flights to Anchorage were uneventful. Birding in Anchorage on Thursday morning was also relatively uneventful. Best birds were a Dipper (a bird we don&#8217;t always get), a couple of Gray Jays, and a Belted Kingfisher. The kingfisher was a new Alaska bird for us!<\/p>\n<p>The flight to Adak was delayed an hour because of a crew change, so we didn&#8217;t get there until near 6 pm. That gave us only a couple of hours before dark, so we headed up to Clam Lagoon, but the tide was so high, there were no mudflats.<\/p>\n<p>The best bird of our quick run around the lagoon was a Peregrine Falcon, especially since we didn&#8217;t see any this past May.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_733\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/PF2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-733\" class=\"size-full wp-image-733\" src=\"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/PF2.jpg\" alt=\"Peregrine Falcon, Clam Lagoon Seawall, Sept 11, 2014.\" width=\"600\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peregrine Falcon, Clam Lagoon Seawall, Sept 11, 2014.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_732\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/PF1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-732\" class=\"size-full wp-image-732\" src=\"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/PF1.jpg\" alt=\"Peregrine Falcon, Clam Lagoon Seawall, Sept 11, 2014.\" width=\"600\" height=\"530\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peregrine Falcon, Clam Lagoon Seawall, Sept 11, 2014.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>However, the most intriguing note of the day was the comment from the local police chief that there were &#8220;several small hawks hanging around.&#8221; Back in June, John Pushock&#8217;s group found several Common Cuckoos in town. They look like accipiters when they fly. Could that be what is still here?<\/p>\n<p>We will be looking tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrival&#8230; Our flights to Anchorage were uneventful. Birding in Anchorage on Thursday morning was also relatively uneventful. Best birds were a Dipper (a bird we don&#8217;t always get), a couple of Gray Jays, and a Belted Kingfisher. The kingfisher was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/thursday-sept-11-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2014-september","category-sept-11-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","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=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2572,"href":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/2572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}