A Tardy Report
Spent a week up Alaska way trying to knock a few species off the life list and managed three out of four.
King Eider (scrappy plumage but I don't mount them anyway)
Aleutian Teal
Harlequin Duck
Willow Ptarmigan
The late season brant were spooky so it was layout hunting only which ain't my game.
The weather was never right to go far enough out for Pacific Eider sadly. The Kings were pure luck when we were out for Harlequin and save me a painful expensive trip to St. Paul.
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
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