Alaska impressions 1

Everything in Alaska is on a different scale. Mountains, forests, sounds - everything is ten times bigger, taller, and farther away than you expect.











For example, the glacier at the end of this sound is at least a mile away.










A bald eagle taking a lunch break:


A colony of kittiwakes - a northern type of gull:


Other colonies were not far away:












A pod of orcas showed up at the end of our day cruise. More orcas in the next post!

Alaska - Whales

Philippines - birds

Tarictic Hornbill:



Yellow-vented Bulbul:


Blue-throated Bee-eater:




Whiskered Treeswift:


Tarictic Hornbill:


Brown Shrike:


Yellow-vented Bulbul:


Pygmy Woodpecker:


Coleto:


Blue-naped Parrot:


Blue-throated Bee-eater: