Not much new to report today: Red-faced Cormorant and Wandering Tattler.  (And that reminds me, I forgot to mention Kittlitz’s Murrelet yesterday. )  The Eurasian Wigeon from yesterday are still around, as are the Bar-tailed Godwits and Emperor Geese.  The Cackling Geese are still at the airport too, plus three more at Clam Lagoon.

The winds should be shifting more to the west soon.  In the meantime, we’re still getting regular snow showers.

First, I forgot to mention the most exciting bird we found yesterday: American Green-winged Teal.  OK, maybe it’s not that exciting to anyone else, but it was the first one I’ve seen on Adak.

Waterfowl were the only newsmakers today with some new birds arriving.  Eurasian Wigeon numbers are building with some found at four locations.  There was a small flock of Cackling Geese at the north end of the airport.  On the east side of Lake Andrew, there were three American Common Mergansers (Goosanders are probably the more likely subspecies here).  While the Tufted Duck was MIA, the two Emperor Geese are still here, too.  With north winds continuing, there were also a few new Bar-tailed Godwits at Clam Lagoon.

In non-avian news, there have been snow showers all day, and a small earthquake woke me up last night around 2:30 AM local time.

I’m putting a shot of two Bald Eagles here because these were the only birds I photographed today.

North-northwest winds today.  Not usually great conditions for Asian vagrants, but northerly winds will usually knock down a few trans-oceanic migrants, and today was no exception.  There was one Bar-tailed Godwit on Clam Lagoon all day, plus another flew over Contractors Camp, and late in the day we found 4 Pacific Golden-Plovers along the road near Palisades Lake.

Some other highlights include 1 male Tufted Duck (found by Isaac Helmericks a few weeks ago), 3 Eurasian Wigeon, 2 Emperor Geese (also found by Isaac), an Arctic Loon…

Not a high-quality shot, but it shows the flank patch

…Ancient Murrelets are also showing in numbers close to shore.  Two were in the small boat harbor.  Here’s one of them:

My battery is running low, so that’s it for today.