I don't like posting trip reports. When I started this dumpy website, I wanted to fill the gap in the bird blogosphere between Hey Here's A Cardinal In My Backyard bird blogs and Here Is Some Insane Endemic Trogon I Discovered On An Island blogs. Reports of my lame 30-species-days were not my area of interest.
But, dear reader, screw you. It's my damn website and if I go to Alaska and see a ton of cool shit and lug around some huge lens everywhere to get pictures, then you're going to have to look at them. So buckle in.
A quick note - my autofocus doesn't work. I lucked into a Canon 30d camera body when my friend, it's previous owner, dropped it into a saltwater swamp. He went to upgrade, I inquired about the condition of the damp body, he said it sorta worked, the rest is history. Most of the time the thing works fine, but the electronic connections are rusty and there's not much communication between the lens and the body. So some of the photos aren't that great and aren't in good focus but who cares. Just so you know.
I traveled with my buddy Jake to Anchorage, Homer, Seward and Nome, Alaska. I got 21 ABA lifers. 140 species total. I drank a bunch of beers. I saw musk oxen, sea otters, killer whales and guys smoking crack. Here are some of the birds.
Northern Wheatear
Golden Eagle
Great Bowerbirds bowers
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