Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska – 2010 May 16 It’s nesting season in the aviary. It’s a crowded tourist season as well. Bering, who wasn’t making a sound, recognized me and started calling out. It’s incredible that he subdue knows who I am. It’s not color, nor voice, nor smell… maybe magic? He braved protective birds near their nests to come to this side of the pool. The guillemots gave him, and some public, a really hard time. There are several kittwakes, gulls, and ducks guarding their nests just off camera. You are hereby warned about Puffin Sex… that has nothing to do with cigarettes. Horned Puffins, indeed. With all his molting and bringing up the rear some of that white cap, Bering sort of has a Larry King thing going on… don’t you reckon? Delight in!
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Bering – Duck Deux
Alaska Sea Life Center in Seward, Alaska – 2010 May 01 A week later… Does Bering the long-tailed duck remember me? Was the attraction the green coat? (Another woman in the same color proves that’s not the case.) Bering was reunited with Tussock, his more colorful brother, during this week. It seems there was a bit of sibling rivalry over my attention. You may notice a group dance for who is closest and I did try to give Bering the benefit. Bering taught his brother to play hide-n-seek with the hooman loon. The rhinoceros Auklet cannot be ignored. It follows… just more quietly! And the Tufted Puffins, Horned Puffins, King Eiders, and other seabirds make grand appearances and noises. The background noise is rock scrubbing and hoses running while two staffers clean the aviary. Thanks to B for documenting this reunion.