Second Installment, Alaska 2012, Mostly Denali and Eagle River

Baby Spruce Grouse, Eagle River Nature Center

Thunderbird Falls

Backyard Moose

View of Denali from Talkeetna area

Denali Highway. Birding paradise and porcupine gin house.

Gray Jay, Denali Highway

More Denali Highway. Gunshots heard. Routine business up there.

Denali Highway. A week removed and I'm ready to go back.

Moose on the move from a serious storm in Denali National Park

Bull Caribou across the way.

Keeper of Denali National Park

Willow Ptarmigan! Finally. Last mothergrabbin' day of the trip. Hiked up Baldy Mountain in Eagle River, which has an incredible view over Anchorage. I had given up at this point. We made it to the top of the mountain, gnashing my teeth that we didn't get the easiest bird in Alaska and up from a stunted Willow tree, came a crazed family of Ptarmigan. Parents did their broken wing dance in front of me while the babies scurried in the other direction. I didn't mean to get that close. I really didn't believe they existed at this point anyways. Horned Lark hanging out up there as well.