Date: 5/8/25 9:44 pm From: Lani Raymond via groups.io <lanibirder...> Subject: [AKBirding] Shorebird Festival in Homer
*Excellent Festival with nice sunny days and we've already logged 115
species! Many more expected--even rumors of a jaeger flying south from
Kasilof as I write... Spring feeling in the air with now three warbler
species here and, for many of us, hearing our first hermit thrush today. *
*Hope many of you will come down and join us!*
*2025 Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival: Species Tally*
*Species seen Thursday, May 8th **(**new species in BOLD)*
*Mud Bay:* MARBLED GODWIT, HUDSONIAN GODWIT*,* WHIMBREL*, *BLACK-BELLIED
PLOVER, DUNLIN, LEAST SANDPIPER, SHORT-BILLED and LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER,
WESTERN SANDPIPER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, AMERICAN PIPIT, NORTHERN HARRIER.
*Mariner Park:* MARBLED GODWIT, HUDSONIAN GODWIT, WESTERN SANDPIPERS
(1000), DUNLIN (1000) SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, WESTERN and LEAST SANDPIPER,
DUNLIN, LONG-BILLED and SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, PACIFIC GOLDEN-PLOVER,
*EURASIAN
WIGEON*, NORTHERN HARRIER.
*Green Timbers/Louie’s Lagoon:* PACIFIC GOLDEN-PLOVER, BLACK-BELLIED
PLOVER, WESTERN SANDPIPER, SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, DUNLIN, LEAST SANDPIPER,
LAPLAND LONGSPUR, AMERICAN PIPIT, SAVANNAH SPARROW
*End of the Spit** (Fishing Hole south): *SURFBIRD (end of the Harbor
jetty), BLACK TURNSTONE, *BRANT,* DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT, COMMON
MERGANSER, HARLEQUIN DUCK, AMERICAN PIPIT, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, HERRING GULL
*Beluga Slough**: RUDDY TURNSTONE,* BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, LEAST SANDPIPER,
WESTERN SANDPIPER, CANADA GOOSE, SANDHILL CRANE, BELTED KINGFISHER,
AMERICAN PIPIT, FOX SPARROW, MERLIN
*Beluga Lake East/Platforms:* PECTORAL SANDPIPER, WILSON’S SNIPE, LEAST
SANDPIPER, AMERICAN PIPIT, TREE and VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW, TRUMPETER SWAN,
VARIED THRUSH, HERMIT THRUSH, LINCOLN SPARROW, CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEE,
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER, *RED-TAILED HAWK*, NORTHERN HARRIER
*Calvin and Coyle Trail**:* *DOWNY WOODPECKER,* AMERICAN THREE-TOED
WOODPECKER, SPRUCE GROUSE, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN CREEPER, YELLOW-RUMPED
WARBLER, VARIED THRUSH, PACIFIC WREN, TREE and VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW,
NORTHERN HARRIER
*Other Areas in Homer:* Kachemak Drive: *COMMON REDPOLL, *MARBLED GODWIT*.
*East End Rd on past Fritz Creek:* ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, *RED-TAILED HAWK
(Harlan’s?)
*Anchor River:* RED KNOT, HUDSONIAN GODWIT, BLACK TURNSTONE, BLACK
OYSTERCATCHER, PACIFIC GOLDEN-PLOVER, WHIMBREL, WESTERN and LEAST
SANDPIPER, DUNLIN, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, LONG- and SHORT-BILLED
DOWITCHER, *OSPREY,
ALEUTIAN TERN*, ARCTIC TERN, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, AMERICAN PIPIT, SAVANNAH
SPARROW, NORTHERN HARRIER, *ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER* (by campgrounds), *WILSON’S
WARBLER* (by campgrounds). *AMERICAN DIPPER* (south end of North Fork Rd at
“Dipper Bridge” 2 miles in from Highway).
