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		<title>Yellow-bellied Flycatcher in Alaska</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/07/30/yellow-bellied-flycatcher-in-alaska/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the frenetic spring and summer breeding season is over and my schedule has eased up I have some time to post photos of this summer&#8217;s adventures. One of the highlights of my summer was a short trip that Bob Dittrick and I took to a nondescript ridge called Deadhorse Pass on the Eureka [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birding the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/07/04/birding-the-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just returned from three weeks (June 13-July 2) in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge where I led two birding trips for Wilderness Birding Adventures.  Below is a brief photo tour through some of the many highlights. Fledgling Gray-headed Chickadee Poecile cincta, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 16 June 2010. The large white cheek patch, gray [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caspian Terns near Nome!</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/06/01/caspian-terns-near-nome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nome]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia, Safety Lagoon, near Nome, 1 June 2010. Caspian Terns have been expanding their range in recent decades and have now colonized several areas in southcoastal, southeast, and western Alaska.  There are a very few records for the Seward Peninsula, all of which come from Safety Sound/Lagoon near Nome and represent the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adak Island, May 13-20</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/05/31/adak-island-may-13-20/</link>
		<comments>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/05/31/adak-island-may-13-20/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 19:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From May 13-20 I was on Adak Island in the central Aleutians leading a birding trip for Wilderness Birding Adventures. The Asian rarity highlights from the trip were a female Smew and a Hawfinch. Least Sandpiper and Northern Wheatear were very good finds from an island perspective. Rarities aside, Adak has an interesting list of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seal Pup and Thayer&#8217;s Gull</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/04/28/seal-pup-and-thayers-gull/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gulls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the Bering Sea on the NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson.  We left Kodiak on April 23rd and we&#8217;ll finish this cruise in Dutch Harbor on May 3rd. The mission of the cruise is to service oceanographic moorings in the eastern Bering Sea. Young Spotted Seal Phoca largha, Bering Sea, 28 April 2010. Thayer&#8217;s Gull [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emperor Goose in Homer</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/01/02/emperor-goose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Homer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emperor Goose Chen canagica, Homer, 1 January 2010. Originally found on the Homer Christmas Bird Count (CBC) on 19 December 2009, this Emperor Goose was a dandy way to ring in the new year. It is of less than annual occurrence on the Kenai Peninsula. Other Alaska CBC totals for Emperor Goose this year include: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Townsend&#8217;s Solitaire and Cedar Waxwing</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2009/12/06/cedar-waxwing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.birdingak.com/2009/12/06/cedar-waxwing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Homer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Townsend&#8217;s Solitaire Myadestes townsendi, Homer, 7 December 2009. Townsend&#8217;s Solitaires are uncommon to rare breeders at treeline on the Kenai Peninsula.  They are rare and erratic winter visitors to Homer.  This individual has  been frequenting chokecherries and mountain ash trees on Fernwood since at least 3 December. Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum, Seaside Farms, Homer, 5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain Bluebird in Homer!</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2009/11/18/mountain-bluebird-in-homer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.birdingak.com/2009/11/18/mountain-bluebird-in-homer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mountain Bluebird Sialia currucoides, Homer, 18 November 2009. Perched alone on the top of a birch, I pulled over to take a look at what I was expecting to be an American Robin.  Instead, this Mountain Bluebird made for a big surprise on my way home from town today.   It moved around frequently, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anna&#8217;s Hummingbird Has Left the Yard</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2009/11/17/annas-hummingbird-has-left-the-yard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.birdingak.com/2009/11/17/annas-hummingbird-has-left-the-yard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Homer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anna&#8217;s Hummingbird Colypte anna, Homer, 9 November 2009. The Anna&#8217;s Hummingbird seems to have left my yard in Homer.  It was last seen around noon on 14 November, the 8th day since it appeared at the feeder on 7 November.  There have been at least five other reports of Anna&#8217;s Hummingbirds in Alaska this fall&#8211;four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White-throated Sparrow in Homer</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2009/11/08/white-throated-sparrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis, Seaside Farms, Homer, 8 November 2009. Battle of the yard birds in Homer.  The Anna&#8217;s Hummingbird was still present at our feeder today and just a mile or so down the road Mossy Kilcher had this beautiful White-throated Sparrow in her ravine.]]></description>
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