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		<title>Bar-tailed Godwit, Black Turnstone and Surfbird</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2012/05/04/bar-tailed-godwit-black-turnstone-and-surfbird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 08:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The shorebirding in Homer is getting better and better. Birds are everywhere on the Spit right now and diversity is picking up. Today&#8217;s highlights included a Bar-tailed Godwit and great looks at Surfbirds and Black Turnstones. Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica and Mew Gull Larus canus, Homer Spit, Homer, 4 May 2012. Bar-tailed Godwits breed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shorebirds Have Returned</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2012/05/02/shorebirding-in-homer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 07:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent a few hours on the Homer Spit today enjoying some newly arrived shorebirds under sunny skies. I don&#8217;t think birding gets any better than picking your way through a mixed flock of shorebirds. Click on any photo to enlarge. Dunlin Calidris alpina, Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri, and Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola, Homer Spit, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Pipit</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2012/04/22/american-pipit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 06:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AK Birding Sites]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Pipit Anthus rubescens, Homer Spit, 22 April 2012. American Pipit is a common breeder in alpine and tundra habitats across Alaska; it is one of the most widespread breeding birds in the state. In spring and fall migrants are often encountered in grassy areas and beaches. This pipit was one of eight I found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purple Finch in Homer</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2012/03/21/purple-finch-in-homer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.birdingak.com/2012/03/21/purple-finch-in-homer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Male Purple Finch Carpodacus purpureus, Homer, 21 March 2012. The winter of rarities in southcoastal Alaska keeps getting better and better!  This Purple Finch has been attending a feeder in Homer since 12 February 2012, but was only just identified. The species is casual in southcoastal Alaska. This is approximately the 5th record for Homer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Tufted Duck?</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2012/03/13/no-tufted-duck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AK Birding Sites]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you spot the Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula? Eyak Lake, Cordova, 20 October 2005. Last year I wrote a post on species which have been recorded in Alaska, but are long overdue to reappear. Click here if you&#8217;re interested in reading that. Lately I&#8217;ve been thinking specifically about the Kenai Peninsula and the birds that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cabin Fever</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2012/02/13/cabin-fever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Homer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The incrementally longer days and warmer temperatures this week, coupled with the fact that I&#8217;ve been too busy to do much birding, have given me a case of cabin fever. I&#8217;ve been thinking lately about spring and my favorite group of spring migrants&#8211;shorebirds. So I&#8217;m posting a few pics from last spring in Homer to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Gray Owl</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2012/01/22/great-gray-owl/</link>
		<comments>http://www.birdingak.com/2012/01/22/great-gray-owl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Homer]]></category>
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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>Hybrid Goldeneye</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2012/01/09/hybrid-goldeneye/</link>
		<comments>http://www.birdingak.com/2012/01/09/hybrid-goldeneye/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aberrant Birds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Common X Barrow&#8217;s Goldeneye Bucephala clangula X islandica, Homer Spit, 8 January 2012. This bird was hanging out at the &#8220;fishing hole&#8221; on the Homer Spit on 8 January 2012. It has an intermediate amount of white on the scapulars and a facial spot that is intermediate in shape between the oval of a Common [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.birdingak.com/2012/01/06/the-final-birds-of-2011/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.birdingak.com/2011/12/22/new-birding-blog-and-a-few-bird-highlights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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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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