Alaska: Nome

Click on the small picture to see a larger, more detailed version. I toured Alaska, visiting Anchorage, St. Lawrence Island (Gambell), Seward, St. Paul Island, Nome, and the Denali area. The trip was led by Jan Hansen (dba Otus Asio Tours otusasiotours@bellsouth.net). He leads a variety of trips, all of which I would recommend. On this trip, the co-leader was John O'Donnell who has led a number of trips for the Sierra Club.

This page is devoted to photos from the Nome area June 2 through 5, 2002.

Nome - scenery and non-avian wildlife

Safety Sound June 3 and abandoned gold mining operation June 4, 2002.

Two sets of Grizzley bears, each a mother and three yearlings, June 3 (left and center) and June 4 (right), 2002.

Musk Ox, 2 separate sightings June 5, 2002.

Caribou, June 5, 2002.

Reindeer June 5, 2002.

Nome: birds

Pacific Loon, June 4, 2002.

Long tailed Duck, female June 2 (left) and male June 5 (right), 2002.

Common Eider, June 2 and 5 and Tundra Swan (right), June 4, 2002.

Arctic Tern, June 2 and 4 (right), 2002.

Aleutian Tern, June 4, 2002.

Ivory and Glaucous Gulls, June 4, 2002.

Sabine's Gull, June 2, 2002.

Parasitic Jaeger, June 2, 2002.

Red Phalarope, June 2 and June 4 (group), 2002.

Sanderling (left) and Dunlin (right), June 3, 2002.

Pacific Golden Plover (left two) June 2 and American Golden Plover (right three) June 4, 2002.

Willow Ptarmigan, June 2 and 4 (right), 2002.

Rock Ptarmigan, June 3 and 4 (right), 2002.

Wilson's Snipe (left) June 3, Fox Sparrow (center) June 2, and Northern Waterthrush (right) June 3, 2002.

Lapland Longspur male, June 2, 2002.

Common Redpoll, June 2 and 3 (right), 2002.

Hoary Redpoll, June 3, 2002.

Eric W. Greisen
egreisen@nrao.edu