Our third day of the Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival we took one of the festival boat trips.  The boat enabled us to cover more of the bay than our kayak trip the previous day.

We saw so many birds and otters!  Plus, my arms were able to recover from kayaking.  I’m glad we did both trips from Homer Spit as they each had their own advantages.

The highlights of the otters was seeing a mother otter and pup resting on shore, and seeing a large group of mothers with their pups in the water.

Rainbow Tours did a great job of finding birds for us.  Below are just a few of the highlights.

That evening, we moved our camp from Homer to Anchor River State Recreation Area as I was scheduled for a morning bird walk there on the final day of the festival. 

Halibut Campground is practically on the beach, where we had an excellent view of 3 volcanoes across Cook Inlet. Redoubt and Iliamna, pictured below, are in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.

We were fortunate that the campground was open and that we managed to get the last site!  It was nice to enjoy a sunset walk at low tide after supper.  

I had an excellent time birding on Sunday morning.  I learned so much and saw cool birds such as Hudsonian Godwit, Whimbrel, Black-bellied Plover, and Surf Scoters.  I also (finally) started experimenting with e-bird.  Here is my bird list for that morning https://ebird.org/checklist/S236657801