Subject: [Tweeters] St. Paul Alaska
Date: Jun 14 15:53:14 2009
From: Rob York - swashbuckler_us at yahoo.com
Hi Tweets,
Just returned home from a week at St. Paul Island, Alaska. It is an out of the way place, but well worth the effort. The tours are well conducted with lots of great, different birds to see and the tour guides are extremely knowledgable and helpful. (Shameless plug)
Some of the photos from my trip are posted at:
http://swashbuckler.deviantart.com/gallery/
with more (many more) to come (yet another shameless plug)
Among the species I saw: (no counts, many were "countless"!)
King Eider
Harlequin Duck
Long-tailed Duck
Northern Fulmar
Red-faced Cormorant
Rock Sandpiper
Red Phalarope
Gloucous-winged Gull
Gloucous Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake
Red-legged Kittiwake
Common Murre
Thick-billed Murre
Parakeet Auklet
Least Auklet
Crested Auklet
Horned Puffin
Tufted Puffin
Short-eared Owl
Winter Wren
Lapland Bunting
Snow Bunting
Gray-crowned Rosy Finch