Thank you, Mike. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thank you, Charlie. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 She was quite the little coquette. 😊

GOOFY GIRL: A Barrow's goldeneye hen, photographed in an Interior Alaska pond, shows off during a breeding display for a male (out of frame).

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Thanks very much, Rob. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thank you, Lori. 🙏🏻🙏🏻😊

A Barrow' goldeneye pair courts on a pond in Interior Alaska.

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Thanks very much. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

SPLISH SPLASH: A spectacled eider drake bathes in a tundra pond outside of Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska.

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A male pectoral sandpiper, Calidris melanotos, inflates air sacs in its chest to draw mates in a wetland near Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska. Pectoral sandpipers winter in South America and migrate north to Alaska each spring to nest and rear young.

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✈️ 😆 Thank you kindly, Dan. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

FLAPS DOWN: A long-tailed drake in breeding plumage comes in hot for a landing on a tundra pond in Alaska's high Arctic.

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Thank you, Robyn. 🙏🏻🙏🏻😊

Thanks so much, Dan. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 These king eider drakes are so beautifully colorful. They really brighten up the tundra each spring.

A king eider takes wing from a tundra pond outside of Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska.

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I know … those spines! 🫎🫎🫎

FALL FLASHBACK: A bull moose feeds on devil's club leaves deep in Southcentral Alaska's boreal forest.

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WHAT'S UP? A willow ptarmigan peeks over a snowdrift in Southcentral Alaska's Chugach State Park. The park and its mountains overlooking the state's largest city are alive with wildlife-viewing opportunities.

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A RED PHALAROPE pauses beneath a high-Arctic ice shelf in a tundra wetland outside of Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska.

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Yep, all dressed up for nesting season after a long trip north. 😊

AN AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER forages on the high Arctic tundra outside of Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska.

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DON'T FORGET YOUR EASTER BASKET! Yep, word has it he's on his way. 🐣🐣🐣

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Thank you, Catherine. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 I was fortunate with bird; as long as I sat still, it went about its business unfettered. 😊

SINGLED OUT: A spruce grouse hen pauses near a trail in eastern Alaska. To achieve the look for this image, I used a 500mm f/4 lens with 1.4X extender for 700mm. The image was shot at f/5.6, ISO 1000, with shutter speed of 1/500.

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NORTHERN NESTER: A Wilson's snipe pauses on a tussock in the tundra outside of Nome, Alaska.

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BEWARE MAMMA BEAR: I bumped into this one and her twin cubs while photographing songbirds one fine May day. She sternly suggested I turn around and go back the way I came. I didn't argue.

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Yes, they always let you know they’re around. Btw, don’t know if anyone noticed, but I misspelled “Reveille” in my caption. 😄

Exactly … 😄

FIRST CALL: A collared pika sounds revelry as the morning sun tops Alaska's Talkeetna Mountains.

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Thanks very much. 🙏🏻🙏🏻😊

Thank you. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻