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An Alaskan Odyssey – Seward and Kenai Fjords National Park

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Jul 092016

An Alaskan Odyssey - Seward and Kenai Fjords National Park

SEWARD – Is a small city located on the south coast of Alaska, on the Kenai Peninsula. It is the ninth most lucrative fisheries port in the United States, the main industry, followed by tourism. Seward is unusual among most Alaskan communities in that it has road access in the Seward Highway from Seward to Anchorage. We did the majority of our birding in this area along the Highway, stopping of at lakes and trails on route. Our prime reason for visiting Seward was to travel out along Resurrection Bay and the picturesque Kenai Fjords National Park, on one of […]

An Alaskan Odyssey – Nome

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Jul 052016

NOME – (pronounced Noum) – June 9th – 12th 2016 – Well there’s no place like Nome, as the saying goes! Located on the edge of the Bering Sea, on the South West side of the Seward Peninsula, the only way to enter is by air or sea. With a population of around 3,500, Nome has a Sub-Arctic climate, with very cold winters and short cold summers. The population is a mixture of Inupiat (Alaskan Native People) and Non-natives. Nome is famous for the Gold Rush and remnants of a by-gone age are scattered all around the area. Gold dredging […]

An Alaskan Odyssey – The Final Frontier

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Jul 042016

Date: 8th June – 23rd June arriving back in UK on 24th June 2016 – When Glyn & Richard spoke to me about the possibilities of visiting Alaska back in October 2015, the plan soon became a reality. I must admit I never expected that I would visit, what is commonly known as, “The Land of the Midnight Sun” or “The Last Frontier”. I’m sure a visit to Alaska is on everyone’s wish list, so I count myself very fortunate, as it turn-out to be the trip of a life time. We planned the dates around the best time for […]

Out and About in Derbyshire

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Jun 052016

This morning (5th June2016) a belated trip up into the Peak District in the hope of one or two speciality woodland summer visitors. I had left it very late this year for Pied Flycatcher, Wood Warbler, Tree Pipit and Redstart. Usually the best time is in early May, just after the birds have arrived back on their breeding grounds. They are then actively singing, looking for a mate and staking out their territory. Early June, they are feeding young, little in the way of song, making it very difficult to locate them in the dense leaf canopy. To make matters […]

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