Some recent AK photo's

[Takeo]

Hi.

Could anyone please post an aireal picture of the town of Kwethluk if available ?

Thanks.

Takeo.

[Floyd_Davidson]

Here are some interesting pictures:

[Redhawk]

Nice captures Floyd! Is that a light phase Pomarine Jaeger?

[Barkingowl]

A jeager is a seagull? A hawk?

[Redhawk]

A Jaeger is a gull like sea bird; they have hooked beaks like a hawk and are predators that feed on songbirds, shorebirds, lemmings, and eggs and the young of other birds. Although they are similar to gulls and have some features of hawks they are a unique family of birds and are not classed as gulls or hawks. The Pomarine Jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus) is one of several species of the Jaeger Family (Stercorariidae)

[Floyd_Davidson]

Originally Posted by Redhawk

Is that a light phase Pomarine Jaeger?

This is almost certainly a Pomarine Jaeger.

It took me a bit to figure out how to tell, as I'm not a birder and the descriptions on the bird books (I have three different books) don't necessarily make sense to me! But, it finally sunk in what they meant by "central tail feathers", which are the ones sticking way way out behind. Those are pointed on a Parasitic Jaeger and rounded on a Pomarine Jaeger. The pictures distinctly show rounded tail feathers.

[allforcats]

Originally Posted by warptman

july 7th sunset

glorious!!!!!!!

[warptman]

End of an era. For most of my life there has always been a boardwalk from 7th Avenue to the Housing area going over the slough. They build a bike/walk path next to the highway last summer and began tearing down of the walkway. I've never had any pictures of the whole walk way until today, well, half of it anyways.

[wan2Batraveler10]

I am sitting in an air conditioned apartment lookin at picture of snow covered forests and such and I am freezing. Trying to keep feet warm and its Summer July 9, 2008. Those are some beautiful pictures Rance. You're the greatest!

[Floyd_Davidson]

Originally Posted by warptman

End of an era. For most of my life there has always been a boardwalk from 7th Avenue to the Housing area going over the slough.

Lots of history, lots of memories and emotions attached to that one!

Wasn't 7th Ave what we used to call the "back road"? I can't remember now. But it was the last road until they put in the housing subdivision out there. (Maybe it was the street that ends at Archie Watson's corner that we called the Back Road, cause that one goes all the way to Louse Town. Hmm... do they still call across the slough Louse Town? Eddie Hoffman and a couple other rather well to do folks lived over there, but it was still known as Louse Town!)

I had some friends that lived a couple hundred feet up 7th Ave from the start of that walkway, in a one of those early freeze containers that was converted into a "house". They were young... it was enough.