Ptarmigan Tracks

5/4     Wood Frogs already croaking at Nugget Pond the afternoon of our arrival to Camp Denali

5/13    A beaver in Reflection Pond! (it didn’t stay for the summer, unfortunately)

6/7      Greater White-fronted Goose goslings on Ranger Pond

6/11    75 bird species recorded by Stan Senner during birding week

6/20    An estimated 500-700 caribou cows and calves observed in the Pirate Hills

6/27    Female Black Scoter with deformed bill around mile 75 kettle ponds, the same individual seen in 2014

6/30    American Dipper adults feeding their chick invertebrates and small fishes along Moose Creek

7/2     Newly hatched Common Loon chicks riding on parent’s back in Wonder Lake

7/7     Grey Wolf near North Face Lodge

8/11    Sandhill Cranes overhead in Wonder Lake area, the first of the season

8/15    Several alpine azalea, bell heather, anemone, and primroses in second-bloom on Camp Ridge amidst riotous fall foliage of bunchberry and bearberry

photo © Paul Pinsky