Bird watching

These Swan pictured in the background are only 100 feet from the lodge
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Join us for an Alaska Bird Watching Adventure you will not likely forget!

JOHNNY'S EAST RIVER LODGE is located in the Pacific
Flyway where it narrows to a mere 10 miles wide. There are
large breeding colonies of Arctic Terns, Glaucous Gull,
Aleutian Tern as well as several pairs of the Parasitic Jaeger,
Long-Tailed Jaeger, and Pomarine Jaeger, these birds are
very protective of their nests so "watch out". Bald Eagles,
resident and migrating, gather here in vast numbers for the
spring Eulachon (Pronounced who-lee-gun) a smelt like fish,
run, you cansee hundreds of Eagles at times depending on the
strength of the run. Many Bald Eagles concentrate here for
the fall Salmon runs during September and October also.

Fall Migration
See hundreds of Trumpeter Swan, thousands of Whistler Swan
and untold thousands of other migrating avian life. Both waterfowl
and non waterfowl fill the skies around the lodge, and because
we are located on one of the few undisturbed wetlands prior to
their fall migration to the lower forty-eight states, they make the
East River their "staging area", it is an awesome sight. All this is
within easy walking distance from the lodge and at times you
don't even have to walk anywhere, just sit on the deck or one of
the lawn chairs and just try to absorb it all.

Spring Migration
This is a time when life in the North Lands is
renewed and it is a spectacular sight and
experience. Thousands upon thousands of
Geese and ducks as well as Hundreds of
Swan make their biannual stop at the East River
before their more northerly trip to the breeding grounds.

Spring or Fall
There may be thousands of migrating waterfowl,
but there's also many other avian life moving
through. Several type of Hawk, Goshhawk,
Sharp-shinned Merlin, Kestrel, Owl, Great Gray,
Hawk-Owl, Boreal, and a vast variety of shore
birds such as Plover, Killdeer, Sandpiper, Yellow leg,
Snipe and many others.

**This is only a partial list of the Avian life we see**
Dunlin Western Sandpipers Least Sandpiper Long-/Short-billed- Dowitcher Marbled Godwit Red Knot Black-belled Plovers Semipalmated Plover Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Black Turnstone Whimbrel Common Snipe Red-necked Phalarope Greater Yellowlegs Baird's Sandpiper	Northern Shoveler American Wigeon Green-winged Teal Gadwall Mallard Northern Pintail Greater Scaup Bufflehead Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Greater White-fronted Goose Canada Goose Snow Goose	Brant Canvasback Horned Grebe Pacific Loon Common Loon Double-crested Cormorant Mew Gull Herring Gull Glaucous Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Bonaparte's Gull Aleutian Tern Arctic Tern Caspian Tern

JOHNNY'S
Alaska Bird Watching

Press the Play Button to view and hear Trumpeter Swans

Join us for an Alaska Bird Watching Adventure you will not likely forget!

JOHNNY'S Alaska Bird Watching

Press the Play Button to view and hear Trumpeter Swans

Join us for an Alaska Bird Watching Adventure you will not likely forget!

JOHNNY'S
Alaska Bird Watching