Alaska Trip ~ June 11-12, 2007

After packing up, we got a ride over to the airport and boarded our '737' for the flight back to Anchorage via Kotzebue. During the flight, I got to see the top of Mount McKinley sticking up through the thick cloud cover. At Anchorage, we all had different flights back to Philadelphia. Mine involved an overnight flight from Anchorage to Atlanta and a next morning flight to Philadelphia. About 24 hours after leaving Nome, I was back home in Pennsylvania with 26 'lifers' among the 124 trip species.

For those of you interested in seeing many more photos from my Alaska trip, you can go to my Alaska Photos Album.

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Alaska Trip List ---- May 29th to June 12th, 2007

1) Common Loon
2) Yellow-billed Loon
3) Pacific Loon
4) Arctic Loon*
5) Red-throated Loon
6) Red-necked Grebe
7) Horned Grebe
8) Northern Fulmar
9) Pelagic Cormorant
10) Sandhill Crane
11) Tundra Swan
12) Greater White-fronted Goose
13) Snow Goose
14) Emperor Goose*
15) Cackling Goose
16) Brant
17) Mallard
18) Green-winged Teal
19) American Wigeon
20) Northern Pintail
21) Northern Shoveler
22) Canvasback
23) Greater Scaup
24) Common Eider
25) King Eider
26) Spectacled Eider*
27) Steller's Eider*
28) Black Scoter
29) White-winged Scoter
30) Surf Scoter
31) Harlequin Duck
32) Long-tailed Duck
33) Common Goldeneye
34) Common Merganser
35) Red-breasted Merganser
36) Semipalmated Plover
37) Common Ringed Plover*
38) Black-bellied Plover
39) American Golden-Plover
40) Pacific Golden-Plover
41) Bar-tailed Godwit*
42) Bristle-thighed Curlew*
43) Whimbrel
44) Spotted Sandpiper
45) Wandering Tattler
46) Gray-tailed Tattler*
47) Red-necked Phalarope
48) Red Phalarope
49) Long-billed Dowitcher
50) Wilson's Snipe
51) Ruddy Turnstone
52) Black Turnstone
53) Rock Sandpiper*
54) Great Knot*
55) Dunlin
56) Semipalmated Sandpiper
57) Western Sandpiper
58) Temminck's Stint*
59) Red-necked Stint
60) Pomarine Jaeger
61) Parasitic Jaeger
62) Long-tailed Jaeger
63) Black-headed Gull
64) Mew Gull
65) Herring Gull
66) Glaucous Gull
67) Slaty-backed Gull
68) Glaucous-winged Gull
69) Black-legged Kittiwake
70) Sabine's Gull
71) Ivory Gull
72) Arctic Tern
73) Aleutian Tern*
74) Common Murre
75) Thick-billed Murre
76) Dovekie*
77) Black Guillemot
78) Pigeon Guillemot
79) Kittlitz's Murrelet*
80) Parakeet Auklet*
81) Crested Auklet*
82) Least Auklet*
83) Horned Puffin*
84) Tufted Puffin
85) Northern Harrier
86) Rough-legged Hawk
87) Peregrine Falcon
88) Gyrfalcon
89) Rock Ptarmigan*
90) Willow Ptarmigan*
91) Say's Phoebe
92) Alder Flycatcher
93) Tree Swallow
94) Bank Swallow
95) Cliff Swallow
96) Gray Jay
97) Common Raven
98) Arctic Warbler*
99) Swainson's Thrush
100) Gray-cheeked Thrush
101) Hermit Thrush
102) Varied Thrush
103) American Robin
104) Northern Wheatear
105) Bluethroat*
106) Red-throated Pipit*
107) White Wagtail*
108) Yellow Wagtail*
109) American Dipper
110) Orange-crowned Warbler
111) Blackpoll Warbler
112) Yellow Warbler
113) Wilson's Warbler
114) Northern Waterthrush
115) Savannah Sparrow
116) American Tree Sparrow
117) White-crowned Sparrow
118) Golden-crowned Sparrow
119) Fox Sparrow
120) Lapland Longspur
121) Snow Bunting
122) Common Redpoll
123) Hoary Redpoll
124) Hawfinch*

* Denotes a 'life bird'.

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