This is just a note to explain my absence here. It's spring/summer and that means I am out picking up litter along the Seward Highway every day I can.
To date, my friend Mary Mcdonald (sic) and I have cleaned up almost 24 miles of highway, including a number of really trashed pullouts. Plus, we continue to pick up new litter in the areas we already cleaned.
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Tern lake.
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In other news, the Tern Lake trumpeter swans are nesting and we should be seeing cygnets soon. They changed their nesting place to a site farther from the highway, so it will harder to see if their eggs have hatched.
Likewise with the regular pair of red-necked grebes, who chose to build their nest close to the highway so I can keep an eye on them. I wish them the best. Last year, they "lost" two clutches of eggs so there were no cute babies.
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| Yes, this is the nest. |
My favorite Alaskan birds, the American dippers, have hatched their eggs.
Some pics from my litter journeys:
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| Yellow-rumped warbler. |
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Orange-crowned warbler.
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Northern shovelers. Those wide bills explain their name.
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Ruby-crowned kinglet. They are tiny, tiny little birds that don't hold still for a nanosecond.
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Ruby-crowned kinglet.
Well, Blogspot is giving me uploading problems, so I'll sign off for now.
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