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		<title>Great Gray Owl</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2012/01/22/great-gray-owl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great Gray Owl Strix nebulosa, mile 3, East End Road, Homer, 22 January 2012. It seems like Great Grays are being reported everywhere in southcoastal Alaska this winter, including at least three in Homer. This bird was hunting along East End Road this morning (22 January 2012). Thanks Carol Griswold and Anne Crane for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Final Birds of 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2012/01/06/the-final-birds-of-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 06:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A day of birding Homer with Luke DeCicco and Wendy Holman made for a very memorable final day of 2011. All photos by Luke DeCicco. Great Gray Owl Strix nebulosa, Homer, 30 December 2011. Photo by Lucas DeCicco. Great Gray Owls make birding headlines anywhere on the Kenai, especially Homer. This winter has been an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Birding Blog and a Few Bird Highlights</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2011/12/22/new-birding-blog-and-a-few-bird-highlights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been out of the country for the last three weeks, leading a birding trip to Bhutan for Wilderness Birding Adventures. I&#8217;ve been trying to catch up with the happenings in Alaska birding while I&#8217;ve been gone and since returning home I&#8217;m very happy to see that Seward birder, Carol Griswold, has a new blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alaska&#8217;s first REDWING!</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2011/11/21/alaskas-first-redwing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my vote for Alaska&#8217;s Bird of the Year 2011. Redwing Turdus iliacus, Seward, 17 November 2011. This Redwing was found by Carol Griswold in Seward on 16 November 2011. I was fortunate enough to have time and clear roads to head over there on the morning of the 17th and get a look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gambell with Wilderness Birding Adventures</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2011/10/04/gambell-with-wilderness-birding-adventures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 03:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a bit late on this post, but thought it worth posting just the same. A few weeks ago I returned from leading two trips to Gambell with Wilderness Birding Adventures September 1-13. Gambell is on the northwest tip of St. Lawrence Island in the northern Bering Sea and is a hotspot for Asian vagrants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anna&#8217;s Hummingbird in Homer</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2011/09/15/annas-hummingbird-in-homer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of southcoastal Alaska&#8217;s breeding Rufous Hummingbirds head south by early August and any hummingbird seen on the Kenai Peninsula after then should be carefully checked. Anna&#8217;s Hummingbird is a casual fall visitor to southcoastal Alaska where it has been recorded in Homer, Seward, Cordova, Palmer and Anchorage. This bird arrived at a private residence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buff-breasted Sandpiper at Anchor River Mouth</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2011/08/22/buff-breasted-sandpiper-at-anchor-river/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Homer birder Michelle Michaud discovered this Buff-breasted Sandpiper at the mouth of the Anchor River yesterday and it was still present today, 22 August 2011. Buff-breasted Sandpiper breeds on the Arctic coastal plain and migrates primarily through the interior of the continent. In southcoastal Alaska they occur only as casual fall migrants primarily in August [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long-billed Murrelet still in Kachemak Bay!</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2011/08/06/long-billed-murrelet-still-in-kachemak-bay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long-billed Murrelet Brachyramphus perdix, near Aurora Lagoon, Kachemak Bay, 6 August 2011. Dave Sonneborn, Rich MacIntosh and I finally relocated one of the Long-billed Murrelets in Kachemak Bay that had been found on 4 June and 23 July 2011.  We found the bird about 1/2 mile offshore of Aurora Lagoon in Kachemak Bay. More details [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long-billed Murrelet Update</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2011/07/31/long-billed-murrelet-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.birdingak.com/2011/07/31/long-billed-murrelet-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 23 July 2011, while conducting murrelet surveys in Kachemak Bay, Kathy Kuletz, Liz Labunski, and Tamara Zeller of the US Fish and Wildlife Service found and photographed THREE Long-billed Murrelets. The birds were in the same area where Karl Stoltzfus photographed the Kenai Peninsula&#8217;s first record of Long-billed Murrelet on 4 June 2011. Long-billed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cordova Highlights</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2011/07/25/cordova-highlights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got home from a week of visiting friends and family in Cordova and had some time to get out birding. The Cordova area, including the Copper River Delta, is an incredible birding area and like much of Alaska under-birded. The delta itself is nearly 600 square miles of wetland habitat with only one [...]]]></description>
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