| April 20 | April 21 | April 22 | April 23 | April 24 | April 29 | April 30 | |
| Common Loon | 1 | ||||||
| Pelagic Cormorant | 1 | 3 | |||||
| Mallards | 2 | 4 | 2 | ||||
| Barrow's goldeneye | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| Bufflehead | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Common merganser | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | |
| Mew gull | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Herring Gull | 1 | ||||||
| Thayer's gull | 1 | ||||||
| Glaucous-winged gull | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | ||
| Gull spp | 30 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 50 | ||
| Bald Eagle | 1 | ||||||
| Raven | 1 | ||||||
| Shorebirds | 60 | ||||||
| weather/time | 8am | low chop 8am | sunny 8am | sunny 8am |
I went to Juneau for a few days so there is a gap in the data collection. The flock of shorebirds on the 30th were on a rock near Morne island. Unfortunatelly I didn't have my binoculars along, so I didn't get a good look at them. My best guess is a mixed flock of Turnstones and Surfbirds, but I'm not convinced.
On the 30th (it was sunny and warm) found Pippets, Townsends warblers, Robins, White-fronted geese, 4 semi-palmated plovers, and Sandhill at Totem Park. The crane did a fly over before it landed by the stream side for a short time then flew off toward Jamestown Bay. Fortunately it flew back, but then overflew the beach and headed toward town. It flew over a couple of other times, but didn't land. The call is pretty distinctive, hard to find words to describe the sound exactly. Patience was helpful in this case as the crane eventually returned and landed in the tide flats, so I got a good look.
Also in this period (based on my notebook) I seem to have collected alot of herring eggs for the garden and
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