Updates and Alaska Trip

I've been very busy lately,  but I did take some bird pictures. I haven't been keeping a whole lot of track of the ducks at the lake. Several have gone missing. For example, I haven't seen the puffy-headed pekin and his girlfriend for a while. Also, we've had several really young ducklings dumped which didn't make it. There are a couple of new domestic ducks, too, including a Muscovy hybrid (Mulard).

New Moulard at the Lake

Miss Half-Face showed up again this year with what looks like a bad infection. I'm not sure, but I think someone finally caught her. I haven't seen her in a while.

Miss Half-Face

Also,  I went to Cordova, Alaska for their Copper River Delta shorebird festival. Here are some of the pictures I took of the town and the birds. Most of the birds were the same as they are around San Diego, but in their breeding colors.

Mount Eyak

Not sure which mountain this is.

Hartney Bay with geese

Greater white-fronted geese

Off the Henly Trail

Henly Trail easy part

Western and least sandpiper with a few dunlin

Snow geese

Whimbrels and peeps

Hartney Bay in the mountin

Hartney Bay in the evening

Bald eagle hanging out in the neighborhood

At the lake,  two broods of Canada geese have arrived so far. There's been a few broods of ducklings, but not a whole lot. Grey Babba seems to have taken a new wife, but she has a wandering eye, so I am not sure if that marriage is going to last.

Blonde duck also has a new dumped girlfriend of his very own.

Random Rambles and Pictures

I just thought that, since I have't posted in a while, that I would post a few random updates.

I saw Pepper the duck a couple of weeks ago at Lake Murray. He'll be 7 this year.

Several ring-necked ducks are also at Lake Murray right now.

Remember Snowie and Snowy's duckling, Uno? Well, he's back with his girlfriend. He's less red now, but still looks a lot like his mom and dad.

This new gray duck was dropped off the lake a few months ago. She's doing well so far. I think we also had a new female Pekin, but something happened to her.

Fat little spotted sandpiper is spending the winter at the lake.

Here's a sunset photo from Lake Murray in November.

I went to the Southeast Arizona bird festival last August. I got some OK pictures. Here's what I think is a Laconte's Thrasher at the Payton Center for Hummingbirds.

Lots of White-winged doves there, too.

And, of course, hummingbirds. I saw several species there. Here are two different kinds right here.

I was also at the Salton Sea last weekend. Not much going on there, though. No ducks or pelicans.

Ring-billed gulls flying by:

Stilts, too, and a couple killdeer, but not much else.