Birding Mail - Boreal Birder - Re: [BorealBirder] RBA Fairbanks Alaska February 9 2012

Where would the Bald Eagle be coming from?

On Feb 9, 2012, at 3:40 PM, (email address filtered) wrote:

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> hotline: Fairbanks and Interior Alaska
> date: February 8, 2012
> number: (907) 451-9213
> to report: (907) 451-9213
> coverage: Fairbanks and vicinity
> transcriber: Ken Russell
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> Birds Mentioned:
> Red-Breasted Nuthatch
> American Robin
> Bald Eagle
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> Welcome to the Birding Hotline for Interior Alaska as of February 8, 2012.
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> A number of RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHs seem to have survived
> the cold spell. Birds have been reported from the Goldstream Valley,
> Chena Hotsprings Rd, and off of Fairbanks Street.
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> Two AMERICAN ROBINS were seen in a yard on Riverview Drive
> on February 2.
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> A BALD EAGLE has been seen for about a week in the Doyon Estates
> along the Chena River.
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> Upcoming events include:
> Ecosystem Reassembly on Kasatochi will be presented on February 13
> at 7:00 pm at the Noel Wien Library Auditorium. Derek Sikes, Curator
> of Entomology, UA Museum of the North, will discuss the colonization
> of the island by terrestrial arthropods three years post-eruption
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> The 15th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count will take place February
> 17-20, 2012. . Information is available at www.birdcount.org
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> If you'd like to become a member of Arctic Audubon Society, information
> is available at their web site: www.arcticaudubon.org .
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> Thanks for calling the Birding Hot Line.
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> -End Transcript
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> Visit Arctic Audubon Society's website: http://www.arcticaudubon.org/.
> Site includes information on birding locations in Interior Alaska as well
> as a calendar of Arctic Audubon programs.
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> Also visit Alaska Bird Observatory's website: http://www.alaskabird.org/
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> Directions to the sites mentioned in the report can found in A Birder's Guide
> to Alaska by George C. West
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> Ken Russell and Laurel Devaney
> Fairbanks, Alaska
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	(Steller's Sea Eagle by Pete Morris/Birdquest)