Bird.

The bald eagle will always be my favorite bird to shoot. It was day 6 of our photo adventure, the morning was Skilak Lake and this was another morning play hooky. It just was a choice, I knew eagles were more of a sure thing.

Lisa and Len took us to the secret spot just as the rain stopped. I started to get disappointed because parking would have required a walk. Never fear Len drove right on the beach. This gave Dee, Wendy, and me great position. It was amazing to see a zillon eagles everywhere fish scraps do the trick.

The other interesting thing was to watch the pecking order for food. First mature bald eagles, then juvies, and at the bottom gulls.

This guy is not sharing.

I think this little guy hasn’t figured out you can’t eat seaweed.

Walking along the beach I took pictures of shells, kelp, fish bones, and coal which washed up on the beach.

This year the gulls were waiting their turn by playing a game of follow the leader.

On the way over to find orcas the group stopped by to take some landscapes and reflections. Here is one and it is not upside down.

As we were leaving the harbor in Seward Alaska, this grand bird gave us a wave.

Those who remember when we stayed right on the water in Seward here is the view of combat camping from the water.

Here is the man made waterfall to control flooding.

The picture with the baby sea lion has been edited let’s just say the shell was not placed to cover anything. I did think it was cute that they really do hold sea shells.

On the way home we stopped by a fish weir and I was able to catch a jumping fish. On the way out of town we stopped by to take pictures of a local bird lady, here’s a small woodpecker.

I got a few, never did get a full breach. This is ok because the fin is unmistakable

This is as close to a breach as I could come.

The boat trip up the Kenai was not bad. I was able to get a few pictures of the birds along the way.

This squacky duck is a grebe they had to rebuild their nest due to fast rising water.

The pair were quite loud.

We saw this set of gulls floating down a river moving at about 7 knots

We never did get super close to this pair of trumpheter swans, but my zoom did.

The cool thing is watching how the swan will take a drink by winding his neck down to the water.

The day I played hooky from the bears we still went and shot in the evening. This mama had a very young baby near her. I was not able to get a picture, I did see her though.

She enjoyed showing off for us but did get a little restless which was our clue to leave.

Driving through the area we ran across another mom with a calf who decided to play hide and seek with us.

We were so lucky to see so many babies

Homer was filled with moms and babies causing cuteness overload. Here are the baby moose, twins I say. Mark this one off the bucket list.

Pulling out of the harbor I saw the ferry we took two years ago.

On the trip the gulls were getting their fill of tiny fish, I call this a fish ball.

Also in the mix was a Tufted Puffin.

I have never seen so many otters with pups.

Of course there always has to be one,

On the way home we stopped by the Russian Orthdox Church here’s a cemetary shot.

The cherry on top was two hours of an eagle baby being fed. AMAZING

We were not able to spend much photo time on day one due to weather. Here are 4 photos. A float plane from Lake Hood Float Plane Airbase. This is the largest base in the world. A loon lives here.

We stopped along the way to take pictures of water falls

We were able to photograph Sandhill Cranes with a baby and one moose. Both were from a distance.