Very nice little bunch of photos! I especially like the composition of the church shot.

Had a different sort of time the last several days but saw a number of interesting bird things:
Drove a small boat (32' Nordic Tug) from Seward to Whittier... the same boat I drove the opposite direction in October for some upgrades. We had incredible weather with mirror calm seas and bright sunshine! Rare in this part of the World, especially this time of year.

As we arrived at the dock in Seward a flock of Dusky Canada geese flew over, the first of any geese this spring.

During the drive we saw a lot of typical birds... But lots were doing non-typical things... or rather not typically seen things. A pair of surf scoter pairs were having some serious interactions in Boot Cove (SW corner of Perry Island) with the males fighting hard and one winner taking off with both hens only to be attacked by the loser within 5-10 minutes. the white neck patch seemed to serve as an intimidator when flared, especially when one male was running across the water at the other.
Harlequins were not acting erraticly, but they will not be starting into serious breeding mode until they fly up into tiny streams and nest. Then the drakes will fly back to the coast and join up with lots of other drakes to spend the summer, safely removed from noisy ducklings...

We saw swans passing... the first of the season.

Just outside Anchorage we saw a couple groups of snow geese. The snows are really strange in AK. Almost none nest in AK, with the vast majority flying all the way North and hanging a left at the Beaufort Sea and flying to the West until they come to Wrangell and Sakhalin Islands in Russia. A very small population of breeding snows in the Prudhoe Bay oilfield is possibly a function of the passive predator control that takes place (just because there are so many people there) in the oilfield.

Anyway, it is a good way to spend a little time watching birds... and thinking about ways to use the feathers!
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