Category: Wildlife
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Alaska in July
I had an incredible July in 2023. In June I was still figuring out how to best visit Denali National Park and see the wildlife there. August was focused on fishing. July was my best wildlife viewing, the World Eskimo Indian Olympics, lots of wildflowers, and the beginning of berries and fishing. Before pondering the…
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Alaska in June
If you love moose calves, June is a great month to visit Alaska. Spend several days visiting Denali National Park in June and you are almost guaranteed to see moose calves with their mothers. Click the links for additional moose calf photos in earlier posts: https://roaming-nature.com/2023/06/08/wildlife-babies-iii/ https://roaming-nature.com/2023/05/30/wildlife-babies-ii-denali-national-park/ In Interior Alaska snow will be gone from…
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Alaska in August
C and I think August is the best month for sportfishing as we enjoy fishing for silver salmon (coho). https://roaming-nature.com/2023/08/15/long-weekend-with-coho-count/ If you want to fish and visit Denali National Park, spend several days (or more) in Southern Alaska to fish, then head north for several days (or more) in Denali. We ate a lot of salmon…
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Blog Upgrade, Me and C Ad-free
I just upgraded this blog to a paid plan. No more ads! Hopefully this is true both in email and on a browser. If you keep seeing ads going forward, please let me know. The tipping point was photos. I had maxed out my 1 GB of free storage and didn’t want to delete the…
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Forest Sounds
I have a nice forest loop for my daily walk. On returning to Virginia, I was surprised by the noisy chorus the insects make in the woods. Did I just not notice in Alaska? Or are the Virginia forest insects louder than insects in interior Alaska? Certainly crickets chirp far louder than mosquitoes whine… No…
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Day 14, Bemidji, MN to Three Lakes, MI
Our fun stop for the day was the Bois Brule trout fishing river, which also has coho and chinook runs in the fall. We didn’t fish as the coho run had pretty much ended 2 weeks ago. We also visited a fish hatchery there. It had a nice little info center where you could buy…
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Day 13, Bemidji, MN
We are spending a 2nd day in Bemidji. We went to the nearby state park where some tamarack trees had turned yellow. Like other larch trees they will lose their needles over the winter At peaceful Big Bog Lake I saw a large otter swimming across the lake and 3 noisy kingfishers. As we finished…
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Day 12, Arcola, SK to Bemidji, MN
We saw a bull moose trotting through a field in Canada this morning. I wonder if that will be our last moose sighting for the next 6 months…. We also saw 3 whitetail deer this evening and will be seeing a lot more of those! Long drive today, leaving at 9 am, arriving 10 hours…
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Day 11, N Battleford to Arcola, SK
All Saskatchewan today as we traveled southeast. Tomorrow we plan to go through a tiny corner of Manitoba before crossing into North Dakota. Our brief fun stop for the day was Condie Nature Refuge where we saw 5 mule deer and some cool birds. We saw a lot of geese in fields and ponds along…
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Day 10, Whitecourt, AB to North Battleford, SK
Today we C saw a moose before we even reached the fenced Elk Island National Park. At the north gate of the park we saw a coyote before reaching the entrance station. I took a short hike at Astotin Lake, where I saw a swimming beaver, a feeding pelican, and other waterfowl that I wished…
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