Tamarac NWR, Minnesota: June 2019

 

Avian road block

Female Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Male Purple Finch

Tom Turkey

American White Pelicans

Damage from beetles: Chincoteague NWR 1-27-20

 

Our aquarium: 7-21

 

Black Bears at Mendenhall Glacier: 8-11-21

 

SE Alaska: 8-21

 

Typical SE Alaska weather

Female Common Merganser and one of her two chicks

Pigeon Guillemot with a sand lance

Interesting Lighthouse

SE Alaska: 8-21

 

Ochre Sea Star

The ochre star can live for 20 years or more, which likely makes it the longest-living sea star in the Pacific Northwest. Sea stars feed on stationary (sessile) or slow-moving species like barnacles, limpets, snails and mussels. Like other sea stars, it everts its stomach to outside its body and around its prey.

Bald Eagle

Female Common Merganser with her chicks

Sometimes we're lucky enough to have a close encounter with the bears

SE Alaska: 8-21

Bonaparte's Gull 

Humpback Whale

Bald Eagles and Northwestern Crows