After returning to Anchorage from Utqiagvik, we embarked on the final leg of our Alaska birding trip. This started with visiting the interior around the eastern end of the Denali Highway, traveling via the Glenn Highway. Following that, we would head back south via Anchorage to Seward, where we were taking a cruise out into the Kenai Fjords. After a night in Anchorage, we headed out early on the Glenn Highway. The key target for the interior part of the trip was Hawk Owl. Once we reached the spruce forest areas, we did most of driving at 45 miles an hour or so to allow easier scanning of the roadside treetops for the owl. We also looked for side roads that allowed good views of spruce forest to check along these as well. Short-eared Owl The first side road we tried was near the Eureka Roadhouse. The small lakes and marshes here held a decent variety of wildfowl, including Trumpeter Swan and Barrow’s Goldeneye. Noisy Lesser Yellowlegs teed up for photo opportunities on the top o...
This blog covers my sightings of birds and other wildlife, mostly from the Goleta area, on the southern Central Coast of California, but also from my regular travels elsewhere, primarily to North America, including Mexico, and Europe. You can contact me via: nlethaby@gmail.com if you have any questions.