A Great White Egret was found by a close friend at Willington Gravel Pits on Saturday 9th July 2016 and a White-winged Black Tern had been present at Rother Valley Country Park near Sheffield, for a couple of days. So, that was Sunday (10th July) morning sorted. Year List moves on to 202 A few studies of the obliging Great White Egret and a couple of record shots of the White-winged Black Tern below.     Great White Egret – Above 6 images – Willington Gravel Pits, Derbyshire – Tony Davison© A non breeding plumaged near adult.   White-winged Black Tern […]

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 […]