Birding

Huge numbers of birds arriving now. We think they are piling up, staging, waiting for the interior and north slope to thaw so they can move to the breeding grounds. It's still unholy cold up there, and not so warm here either. We went to the lighthouse wetlands yesterday to see what was up: shovelers, mallards, pintails, greater white fronted geese, Canada geese, swans. A few snow geese were at Bishop's Beach wetlands and a ton of geese and Sandhill cranes are in the fields around our place.