steelbirder:
Lake Hood - the world's busiest seaplane base, handling an amazing 190 flights per day.
steelbirder:
Orange-crowned Warbler
steelbirder:
Hudsonian Godwit
steelbirder:
Sandhill Crane
steelbirder:
American Wigeon
steelbirder:
Short-billed Gull, formerly Mew Gull
steelbirder:
Barrow's Goldeneye
steelbirder:
Red-necked Grebe
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Tom Madsen (Dutch Harbor) Airport - 800 miles southwest of Anchorage.
steelbirder:
Dutch Harbor Baggage Carousel - that technically isn't a carousel, because it doesn't actually move. Your baggage is simply hurled through the black plastic panels, sliding to a stop on the metal rails at the bottom.
steelbirder:
Bird Cherry
steelbirder:
Candy Flower
steelbirder:
Nootka Lupine
steelbirder:
The Grand Aleutian Hotel
steelbirder:
Savannah Sparrow
steelbirder:
Gray-crowned Rosy-finch (Aleutian and Kodiak Island subspecies)
steelbirder:
Black Oystercatcher
steelbirder:
Lenticular Clouds
steelbirder:
Whiskered Auklets
steelbirder:
Whiskered Auklets
steelbirder:
Horned Puffin
steelbirder:
Laysan Albatross
steelbirder:
Red-faced Cormorant
steelbirder:
Tufted Puffin
steelbirder:
Tufted Puffin
steelbirder:
The SAGA, featured on the television show DEADLIEST CATCH
steelbirder:
Unalaska Island, Alaska
steelbirder:
Fox Sparrow (Sooty)
steelbirder:
Arctic Ground Squirrel
steelbirder:
Pigeon Guillemot