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Birding Tours
Icy Strait
Tour Photos
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Hoonah
Semi-aerial view of the tour area at high tide.
Port Frederick
As viewed from the Hoonah ferry terminal, one of the first stops on the tour. The rock on the far right is home to a Pigeon Guillemot rookery.
Sitka Black-tailed Deer View
Long Island Causeway
High tide in early spring.
Long Island Causeway
At low tide.
Long Island Causeway
Glassing for seabirds
Hemlocks and Spruce Tower over Exposed Intertidal Creatures
The Highway
The best birding spots must be reached by traveling along gravel logging roads.
Game Creek
A great place to see Bald Eagles, American Dippers, and Brown Bears, as well as enjoy a birds-eye-view of spawning salmon.
Rest Stop
The birding trail meanders through forest of varying ages.
Trail
Long Island Causeway
Bird Gallery
Bird Gallery
Birds commonly seen during spring and/or summer in Hoonah. Click on photos to enlarge.
Bald Eagle
Southeast Alaska is one of the best places in the country to see Bald Eagles
Juvenile Bald Eagle
A few weeks after leaving the nest
Immature Bald Eagle
Bald Eagle
This nest is one of three along our tour route.
Bald Eagle Parent with Eaglet
This photo was taken with a phone through my spotting scope on a tour. Guests often take photos of these eagles with their own phones also.
Red-tailed Hawk
This Red-tail belongs to a subspecies that only breeds in Southeast Alaska and coastal British Columbia. It is known as the the "Alaskan" or "Grinnell's" Red-tailed Hawk.
Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk
Light morph. This subspecies is encountered occasionally during migration.
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Brown Creeper
Pacific Wren
Townsend's Warbler
The quintessential warbler of the conifers of the Tongass National Forest, the Townsend's is more often heard than seen.
Wilson's Warbler
Quite common during the breeding season.
Orange-crowned Warbler
Perhaps our most common warbler.
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Myrtle subspecies is quite common.
Song Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Steller's Jay
Steller's Jays are common all over Southeast Alaska
Common Raven
Belted Kingfisher
Pine Siskin
Red Crossbill
White-winged Crossbill
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Lesser Yellowlegs
Greater Yellowlegs
Defending its nesting territory
American Robin
Male Varied Thrush
My favorite bird
Varied Thrush Pair
Other Nature Observed Along the Tour Route
Other Nature Observed Along the Tour Route
Sitka Black-tailed Deer
Brown Bear Track
Brown Bear
Brown Bears
Bog Cranberry Flowers and Sundew
Stair Step Moss
Oak Ferns & False Lily-of-the-Valley
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