tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743204852429391624.post5783324361661136908..comments2024-02-15T12:50:50.638-08:00Comments on The Show and Tell Nature Blog: Regular, and Irregular Birdsjohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05008523039059312800noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743204852429391624.post-2654281909436947522017-07-10T01:47:37.282-07:002017-07-10T01:47:37.282-07:00Stellers Jay is one of my all time favourite Ameri...Stellers Jay is one of my all time favourite American birds. I read in "Where the Sea breaks its back" - the story of Berings expedition to the North Pacific - that Georg Steller knew they had reached America when he saw a jay that was blue. - And the specimen proved they had been there.John Holmeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15419454306292739431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743204852429391624.post-3884115566446443052017-05-23T08:03:06.548-07:002017-05-23T08:03:06.548-07:00A great series of bird pics! Amazed by the bill of...A great series of bird pics! Amazed by the bill of the chickadee - can't be easy to feed with something like that! Just got back from 7 amazing days in Iceland where we also saw Arctic Terns (amongst many other birds) - glad that the terns are around your way too.Jeremy Pearsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17145759344088689647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743204852429391624.post-91191834044163598092017-05-18T08:10:46.871-07:002017-05-18T08:10:46.871-07:00I like seeing a lot of the birds that you post. So...I like seeing a lot of the birds that you post. Some of them remind me of my time up there. This place is so different than the interior but not so unlike South Central. We don't get out much so we don't really even see most of our island let alone different environments. Some day I really want to travel upriver on the Stikine to Telegraph Creek, BC and see the transition from coastal rain forest to high desert. If only they would let me bring back some hares.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743204852429391624.post-16653680527143653262017-05-17T11:09:25.196-07:002017-05-17T11:09:25.196-07:00Good to hear from you. You get a lot more birds in...Good to hear from you. You get a lot more birds in Southeast Alaska than we get in Anchorage.johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05008523039059312800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743204852429391624.post-46606763928091027412017-05-17T08:16:19.812-07:002017-05-17T08:16:19.812-07:00Also love this time of year here. We've had a ...Also love this time of year here. We've had a few new visitors that we hadn't seen here before including a snipe that has been hanging out and a yellow-rumped warbler.<br /><br />Now that we have moved 400 yards off the water instead of along it we don't see sea birds any more from home. But we have six deer, three of them yearlings that came all winter and an otter dropped by in the creek.<br /><br />The grouse hooting was constant all spring and last fall the number of flickers was amazing, but given the number of bark beetles we have in some of the dead standing trees on the place we know why they come!<br /><br />A bear came through last fall though we haven't seen him. There are a number of brown bears about too.<br /><br />Now that we've run off the neighbors cat a few times the jays are a bit safer.<br /><br />We've been glad to see the chickadees and junkos again too since they never made it by our last place (which is less than 10 miles North as the crows in the East fly). Funny to see the great difference in species here vs. there though we are up off the water and out of town now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com