Date: 05/10/1998

Number: 1

I have a second-hand account of a robin being spotted last week-May10-16. Our
river ice went out two days ago (05/18/98) so as soon as some of the ice clears, we'll go
up-river, hopefully this weekend. Maybe I'll see a robin too.

Shaktoolik is a small Eskimo village on Norton Sound (64.20N, - 161.9W). We have robins every summer. They are not plentiful, but they come. Our village is on the Bering Sea coast-a treeless tundra. The robins we see are up river at our fish camp about five miles. (We don't go up until the river is clear of ice. We see robins in June but they probably arrive days or weeks before we get up there.)

Canadian geese, sprigs, mallards, hawks, swans,sea gulls, and we believe a peregrine falcon were here as of 04/27/98.

Kipi Asicksik
Bering Straits School District
kasicksik@shaktoolik.bssd.schoolzone.net

Shaktoolik, AK

Latitude: 64.5 Longitude: -160.5

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