Leg 5.  ANCHORAGE

9 June to 15 June 2012

Anchorage area

Enjoy springtime in the Anchorage area. For birding and nature, we will visit Arctic Valley, Earthquake Park, Hood Lake, Kincaid Park, Potter Marsh, Ship Creek and Westchester Lagoon. We will have day excursions to Portage Glacier and Hatcher Pass. We will also have our ear to local announcements of rare birds that show up in spring in the Anchorage area. We are bound to find something rare; we just don’t know what it will be this year. Taking advantage of Alaska “city life”, we can enjoy shopping, the Saturday market and a great choice of good restaurants in Anchorage. 

Highlights from prior trips

Black Bear, Red Fox, Meadow Vole, Muskrat, Dall’s Sheep, Mountain Goat, Snowshoe Hare, Hoary Marmot, Arctic Ground Squirrel, Moose, Beluga Whale. Cackling Goose, Trumpeter Swan, Greater Scaup , Lesser Scaup, Harlequin Duck, Barrow’s Goldeneye , Common Merganser, Spruce Grouse, Willow Ptarmigan, Rock Ptarmigan, White-tailed Ptarmigan, Red-throated Loon, Pacific Loon , Horned Grebe, Red-necked Grebe, Bald Eagle, Golden Eagle, Merlin, Peregrine Falcon, Sandhill Crane, Hudsonian Godwit, Black Turnstone, Pectoral Sandpiper, Short-billed Dowitcher, Wilson’s Snipe, Red-necked Phalarope, Bonaparte’s Gull, Mew Gull, Glaucous-winged Gull, Arctic Tern, Rufous Hummingbird, Hairy Woodpecker, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Western Wood-Pewee, Alder Flycatcher, Gray Jay, Steller’s Jay, Black-billed Magpie, Northwestern Crow, Common Raven, Tree Swallow, Violet-green Swallow, Bank Swallow, Cliff Swallow, Black-capped Chickadee, Boreal Chickadee, Red-breasted Nuthatch, American Dipper, Swainson’s Thrush, Hermit Thrush, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Varied Thrush, Townsend’s Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, Wilson’s Warbler, Fox Sparrow, Lincoln’s Sparrow, Golden-crowned Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Rusty Blackbird, White-winged Crossbill, Common Redpoll, Pine Siskin.

Rarities from prior trips

Eurasian Wigeon, Terek Sandpiper, Ivory Gull.

Schedule (order of visiting birding sites may be rearranged)

• First day - bird Westchester Lagoon; visit Anchorage Saturday Market.
• Second day - birding at Arctic Valley.
• Third day - birding at Earthquake Park and Kincaid Park.
• Fourth day - birding at Hood Lake and Ship Creek.
• Fifth day - birding at Potter Marsh.
• Sixth day - birding at Portage Glacier.
• Sixth day - birding at Hatcher Pass.
• Note, some of these are half-day birding, so additional social activities will be planned.

Package features:  7-days / 7-nights

• campground in Anchorage (7 nights)
• guided birding excursions to 9+ local birding sites (7 days)
• Anchorage museum entrance
• Mexican night out
• services of social director

Package price

• $650 one person (one RV)
• $690 two people (one RV)

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