Alaska Cruise-June 4-11th

[10aciousfaith]

My wife and I went on an Alaskan Cruise for some R & R. We met and hung out with 2 families from England and one 25 yr old gentleman from Australia at different intervals. It was a paradise experience!
Birding was secondary for me, as you can imagine, with all the food and entertainment available and the time I needed to spend with my wife, Dawn. I managed to see many common birds we regularly see on the West Coast. I will provide a complete bird list at the end. I managed to acquire 5 Year birds: Pigeon Guillemot, Arctic Tern, Wandering Tattler, Black-legged Kittiwake and Buller's Shearwater. I was unable to figure out how to shrink my pictures so that they could equal 1 MB. If someone could assist me with that I would appreciate that. I read that I may be able to accomplish this in my camera settings. Ill check into that.

Here is the complete list of the birds spotted in Alaska and BC waters:

Canada Goose-4
Harlequin Duck-20
Buller's Shearwater-6 (somewhere near Queen Charlotte Islands)
Pelagic Cormorant-1
Wandering Tattler-7 (on sand bar near Cruise ship)
Pigeon Guillemot-6 (seen in Juneau and Skagway)
Rock Pigeon-24
Short-billed Gull-44
Glaucous-winged Gull-43
Bonaparte's Gull-65
Black-legged Kittiwake-55 (interested in what the ship was churning up-Glacier Bay)
Arctic Tern-81 (seen at Skagway port and near a glacier-Glacier Bay)
Bald Eagle-13
Belted Kingfisher-1
Stellar's Jay-`1
American Crow-26
Common Raven-24
Ruby-crowned Kinglet-1
American Robin-3
Pacific-sloped Flycatcher-1 (riding with us on the ship)
Violet-green Swallow-5
Barn Swallow-3
Pine Siskin-8
Song Sparrow-3
Savannah Sparrow-20
Dark-eyed Junco-1

(list in no particular order)

[Chris]

Solid list Damion! A couple of those would be lifers for me.

With the photos, if you did any eBird checklists you can add them to there and then following the steps here fvbirding.com/eBird/Checklist%20Photos.html

Or you could also add them to Flickr if you didn't do any eBird checklists.

[10aciousfaith]

Hi Chris: Does eBird require uploaded photos to be the size of 1MB. If it doesn’t then I will try uploading my pics to my eBird checklists. Thanks!
Which would be lifers for you? I would like to go on another Pelagic trip.

[Chris]

Damion, I think the upload size is 10MB or 12MB on eBird.

Buller's Shearwater and Black-legged Kittiwake would be lifers.

[10aciousfaith]

If anyone wants to view any ID photo from my Alaska Cruise they can find them in my eBird posts.
I don’t know if there’s a more detailed description or tutorial for adding photos from eBird to Fraser Valley Birding. It would certainly help me since I am a bit technologically challenged. Thanks.

[kenneth2019]

Jun 17, 2022 9:49:39 GMT -8 10aciousfaith said:

If anyone wants to view any ID photo from my Alaska Cruise they can find them in my eBird posts.
I don’t know if there’s a more detailed description or tutorial for adding photos from eBird to Fraser Valley Birding. It would certainly help me since I am a bit technologically challenged. Thanks.

How do we find your ebird posts?

[10aciousfaith]

Kenneth, you can search in the Hotspots category June 6th-Juneau (town), June 7th-Skagway—Arctic Tern colony, June 8th-Glacier Bay NP—Muir Inlet, June 9th-Ketchikan—Rotary Beach Park and June 10th—Queen Charlotte Sound (Central Coast). I hope that helps!

[ed]

Glad you were able to do this trip, it’s a great way to see parts of the coast.

[Randy]

Jun 17, 2022 16:03:53 GMT -8 10aciousfaith said:

Kenneth, you can search in the Hotspots category June 6th-Juneau (town), June 7th-Skagway—Arctic Tern colony, June 8th-Glacier Bay NP—Muir Inlet, June 9th-Ketchikan—Rotary Beach Park and June 10th—Queen Charlotte Sound (Central Coast). I hope that helps!

Sounds like a great trip! Maybe you can create a trip report using eBird and we can then easily access all your species and photos...

[10aciousfaith]

Yeah, that makes sense! I’ll consider that option next time.