Alan Curry
@yellowbrow
Mainly local patch birding in Northumberland and the occasional foray further afield.
Incoming! A group of 23 Black-tailed Godwits dropped in to SMI Wetland yesterday evening. The month’s highlight thus far… #NEbirding
American Three-toed Woodpecker in an Anchorage park. Not an easy bird to catch up with. #Birding
Solitary Sandpiper breeding alongside Lesser Yellowlegs and Wilson’s Snipe in a central Alaskan bog. Just like a canny day on the Scillies! #Birding
Fem Pacific Golden Plover in breeding habitat on the coastal tundra at Nome, conversely the American Goldie’s seemed to favour higher elevations. #Birding
Back to sifting thro Alaskan pics now that the world cup is almost done. Glaucous-winged Gull from Dutch Harbor, premier league gullage! #Birding
Rusty Blackbird in a central Alaskan bog. The species is suffering a devastating population decline, a grim fact I was unaware of at the time of the sighting. #Birding
The wandering Welsh Reef Heron had us up the creek at Sandy Haven last week. My first Brit ✅ since Nov 2024. At this rate I should cancel out the ‘Great Lumping’ in about 10 years time! #Birding
It’s July and that means Med Gulls are now on the move, with several present off the prom @SMI every day this week so far. #NEbirding
Budle Bay, what a patch! Boasting a species list of 278 and rising, this publication does it proud. Brimful of attention to detail, it is an outstanding effort by the author and a thoroughly recommended addition to any birder’s bookshelf. To purchase DM @budlebirder.bsky.social #NEbirding
One of the most Northerly hummingbirds on the planet, male Rufous at a garden feeder in Seward, AK. #Birding
Brunnich’s Guillemot, perhaps the least flamboyant of the St Paul alcid community. #Birding
Tufted Puffin, alcid royalty on the cliffs of St Paul. Maybe the Farne Islands one day… #Birding
Crested and Parakeet Auklets decorating the cliffs of St Paul Island in the Baring Sea. #Birding
Pacific Diver, by far the commonest of all the five Diver species seen on the trip. Fab! #Birding
A vagrant Temminck’s Stint in Barrow proved a welcome addition to the ABA list. It was bizarre watching it display amongst the local Semi P Sands. #Birding
Phalaropes were seemingly everywhere around Barrow and often on puddles in the middle of town. #Birding
Circumstances beyond our control reduced our Barrow leg from three days to a 24hr blast. But it was well worth it. All three key Eider species were eventually seen well though we did have to work for them. This pair of Spectacled Eider posed nicely. #Birding
Another classic, the Safety Roadhouse. Out on the coastal tundra an hour out of Nome, it shuts down over the winter and photograph’s inside show snow piled up to roof level. What a bar!
More ABA goodies from the Nome area, Bluethroat, Arctic Wblr and Eastern Yellow Wag. #Birding
While searching for an Ivory Gull we found more ABA Gold in the form of a Vega Gull just before midnight in Nome Harbour #Birding
Plenty of these perfectly attired American Golden Plovers were encountered as we searched for Bristle-thighed Curlews up on ‘Coffee Dome’. Unfortunately the curlews were not so confiding and only offered up vocal flight views. #Birding
Aleutian Tern nesting over coastal tundra near Nome River mouth. Fab! #Birding
This mad looking Spectacled Eider meandered underneath the bridge we were standing on over Safety Sound. A bit of a fluke as they don’t normally occur here. #Birding
Breeding plumaged Sabine’s Gull along the shore of Safety Lagoon, Nome. They simply don’t get much better than this! #Birding