ALASKA'S NEWSPAPER

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Birds

Birds of Spring 2012

Snow geese land on the Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge on Thursday, April 19, 2012 in Anchorage, Alaska. Snow geese migrate toward the Beaufort Sea coastal region in northern Alaska and Canada in spring. (Photo / Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News)

Resident and migratory birds are busy feeding, courting and preparing for nesting as spring arrives at thawing Westchester Lagoon, the Cook Inlet shoreline and other ponds and lakes around Anchorage.

Great Gray Owl

A great gray owl hunts for rodents while perching on the trees, float plane tails and sheds along the shore of Lake Hood Sea Plane Base on Saturday, March 10, 2012 in Anchorage, AK.

A great gray owl at Lake Hood Sea Plane Base.

PHOTO GALLERY

Ravens in Winter

Ravens gather on the corner of Eagle Street and 4 Avenue to scavenge spilled food on the road on a frosty cold Friday, January 20, 2012.

Anchorage ravens in winter.

Swans

A  trumpeter swan beats it's wings while preening at Potter Marsh on Thursday, September 14, 2011. A group of swans stop at Potter Marsh to feed on their migration south.

Swans at Potter Marsh.

Potter Marsh

A gull at Potter Marsh along the Seward Highway across from Turnagain Arm on Wednesday, June 29, 20111.

Potter Marsh Bird Life

PHOTO GALLERY

Alaska cabins

Location: Lynn Canal, Haines, 8/07/08 Over looking the fishing grounds on Lynn Canal.Haines,AK

Share photos of what you love most about your cabin; bonus for any outhouses that make it into your submissions.

Reader-submitted: 2012 Bicycling

Location: Anchorage, 04/18/2011 Three-wheeling Bud!

Share photos of your races, rides, tricks or even your favorite bike.

READER-SUBMITTED

Alaska birds

Location: Parks Hwy  Northern Hawk Owl

Alaska is home to hundreds of different migrating bird species and readers have posted hundreds of their bird-watching finds. Share your photos.

RSVP: May 2012

Location: Bagram, Afghanistan, 05/01/2012 CW2 Clinton K. Brown III of the Alaska Army National Guard with President Obama 1 May 2012 in Bagram, Afghanistan

Submit your photos from community projects and social occasions around town in May, 2012.

Alaska-based soldiers headed for Afghanistan

Brigade Deployment Ceremony

Brigade commander Col. Morris Goins addresses his troops and guests at a U.S. Army Alaska deployment ceremony for the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division Tuesday morning November 29, 2011 at Sullivan Arena. The 3,500-soldier brigade will be departing for Afghanistan on a series of flights in November and December.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Food Bank of Alaska Thanksgiving Blessing

The Food Bank of Alaska Thanksgiving Blessing project is a community-wide effort to provide turkeys and all the fixings to everyone in need on one day, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011, from seven locations and is expected to provide enough food to feed around 7,000 families.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Southcentral Power Project

Project manager Dustin Highers discusses the Southcentral Power Project located at the Chugach Electric Association headquarters off International Airport Road in Anchorage.

Touring the Goose Creek Correctional Center

Goose Creek Correctional Center

Corrections commissioner Joe Schmidt describes the new Goose Creek Correctional Center slated to begin accepting prisoners in March of 2012 at Point MacKenzie.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Operation Bulldog Bite

Photo courtesy MSgt. Roger Sparks

Master Sgt. Roger Sparks talks about the experience of Operation Bulldog Bite in Afghanistan.



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