Good Morning All, Thought I would tell you a bit about myself. I picked up the link to this board from a Alaska Member who posted in AKBirding. We are located between Palmer and Wasilla AK. about 40 miles north of Anchorage. The area is commonly called the valley. Pretty simply because it located in the Matanuska-Susitna valley. Im old enough to have retired for 5 years and dumb enough to have gone back to work last May.
Many folks bird for birding, I bird for photography. http://www.douglloydphotography.com/4436.html
I get around the state to bird a great deal May to October but once the fall migration is complete I don't venture far from our little piece of paradise to bird. I make a winter trip or two to Seward to get a little diversity in my winter birding and Homer for 4-5 days in March for Eagles.
Our Christmas Count is tomorrow and over the past few weeks this Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker has been coming to the house nearly daily. A very rare winter bird here in the winter. My fingers are Xed that he will make an apperance tomorrow. He came yesterday so we can get him in the count week at least. Now do I want to fiddle with the rare bird report.
Doug
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Nice pics and I like the commentary too.
Welcome to Daves and the Bird Watching forum Doug!
Your photos are beautiful and I'll be sure to look through your site later today!
Pelle :-)
Your Bald Eagle shots are wonderful....hope to see more of your photos on the Birdwatching Forum in the weeks and months to come.
Thank you for your post. Welcome, welcome, welcome!! We have yellow shafted northern flickers here but I haven't seen a pine grosbeak in a while.
Here is my excitement today. We finally got the feeders up. The chickadees, juncos, blue jays, crows, cardinals, tree sparrows, house sparrows, and gold finches were there in about half an hour after we set them up. But I was surprised to see these common redpoles.
Doug..Welcome! Your photos are too awesome! I love seeing birds that I didn't know existed!
Boojum..Nice shot of the Redpoles...I've never seen one of those either!
Congratulations boojum!!!
Very nice pic!
Thanks for the super welcomes. The good news is the flicker was here a bit ago on the front feeders and there must be 30 Common redpolls on the back feeders.
Love them polls
Doug
Odd for the flicker to be wintering so far north. Definitely worth filling in that rarity report form!
Resin
Wow thats interesting!
Nice pic Resin!
Welcome Doug! Your photos are fantastic and Toots looks like such a sweetheart!
Hi Doug,
Welcome to Dave's Garden. You do indeed live in a photographer's paradise. I have visited your website and it can be described with one word - professional. Particularly alluring are are your Landscapes, Bald Eagles and the Aurora Borealis phenomena.
I, too, retired nearly five years ago. But, smartly, I am still retired (lol). Frankly, I don't know how I ever had time for work.
I look forward to many more of your fantastic photos.
I agree with Linthicum, your photoes were fabulous. Nice pictures of Mooses there too.
And so are the ones here too.
Just looked through some of your site Doug and the photography is amazing!
Absolutely beautiful!
Welcome Doug. Looking forward to seeing even more of your photos.
~Shan
Welcome Doug!
Very nice pics everyone!
Doug, I've been looking at your photos on the link you posted. Great shots, great pics! I'll be looking forward to seeing more of it!
Marilyn
Fantastic shots! Love the eagles.
Welcome to DG. I'm sorta new here too. I've been reg'd a couple months, but just discovered the bird forum last week.
PeeperKeeper,
Welcome! Glad to have you!
Marilyn
Nice shot of the lark Resin. Another bird I didn't know existed.
Doug, I loved your pics! Hubby and I just moved from Eagle River about two months ago and I never saw birds like that in our yard.
As a side note, since you love photographing the bald eagles, did you know that the VFW in ER feeds the bald eagles in the winter time? It is usually on the weekends but sometimes they do it every day. It is quite a sight to see dozens of bald eagles flying around at the same time.
Celeste
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