PEEP Bird Hotline

Birding & Wildlife Watching on Kachemak Bay

The most recent PEEP Bird hotline entry is below. Help plan your wildlife watching trips in the Homer area by visiting the Birder's Guide to Kachemak Bay website email PEEP(at)islandsandocean.org, or call 235-7337 (PEEP) to report or get updates on bird sightings. Check out the the guide to Responsible Marine Wildlife Viewing in Alaska. You may also purchase a Birding Hotspots Map and Guide at the Alaska Islands & Ocean Visitor Center.

Want to learn the etiquette and ethics of birding? Check out the ABA Birding Ethics.

The 17th Annual Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival is May 7-10, 2009 and the theme is Birds in Culture: Our Brothers and Sisters Return.

KACHEMAK BAY BIRD ALERT INFORMATION LINE

August 25, 2008

A single RHINOCEROUS AUKLET was seen on the 24th just north and west of Sixty-foot Rock. It should be noted that this bird is very rare here particularly at this time of the year.

At the base of the Spit on the 16th a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER, SANDERLING, Rock Sandpiper and some Least Sandpipers were seen in with some Westerns. At the Lighthouse Observation Platform HUDSONIAN GODWIT, Solitary Sandpiper, Long-billed Dowitchers and Yellowlegs were seen. In Beluga Slough a PECTORAL SANDPIPER, Merlin and Peregrine Falcon were reported.

At Fritz Creek the following have been reported: Merlin, Sharp-shinned Hawks, and a Rufus Hummingbird. The only hummingbird reports this year have been just recently, later than usual.

If you see cranes, especially colts or any banded cranes, please call 235-6262 or email reports@cranewatch.org.

Visit the Refuge Website for information on getting to Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge or call 907-235-6546.