This afternoon/evening, we saw a female hairy woodpecker, maybe she's the one we've been hearing drumming on the trees. I don't know if females and males both drum.
We traveled to Anchorage and saw probably 2 dozen swans here and there, Potter's Marsh, the various smaller ponds between Portage and Girdwood, and also on the water south of Portage. Also a lot of mergansers and probably other waterfowl on the Kenai River directly downstream of the lake.
The Moose River has a few small open water areas where the swans and other waterfowl have gathered again during the day, our Sterling friend reports. He also reported a boreal owl encounter, as he was sitting outside on their deck with their new pet, a very small kitten. Both the owl and the pussycat were interested in each other, and the owl apparently did not worry too much about the human holding the kitten. As of this writing, both the owl and the kitten have retired to their corners. We hope the kitten continues to grow up interested in mice, as our friends have a lot of mice in their woodshop, and leaves the boreal owl and other avian creatures for the beings with binoculars.
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