Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Spit Birds

Temperature hit 70 here at 11 am. Expect it will go up a little by evening. I think it's the warmest we've seen it here yet. Fairbanks recorded a low temperature in the 70's yesterday for the first time in the modern era! Flat Earth-ers / Climate Deniers take note.

We're banished from the cabin for two showings today. Spent the morning on the Spit birdwatching. The cranes sure don't mind us or the dogs being around. Sometimes they even follow us. We are lucky the dogs show no interest in them. The Plover adults are still faking injury to distract us from the little ones that are quickly showing feathers in all the fuzz.

Sandhill Cranes
Semi-palmated Plover
Plover chick

Tractor

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