West Chester Lagoon, Anchorage, Alaska

Last stop of the day before going to eat at Kay's was the West Chester Lagoon.  Alaska has been in a heat wave the temperatures have been between 65-80 degrees instead of the 58-65 degrees we had been expecting on our vacation. At the lagoon we found native Alaskan's were dressed in bathing suits and shorts when it was about 72 degrees with a breeze.  I was in slacks, shirt and jacket.  They were laughing at the tourists being "overdressed."  At the lagoon there were some shorebirds out at the island.  I was able to ID some Short-bellied Dowitchers before they all flew off.  There were also Arctic Terns, Mallards, Scaup- both Greater and Lesser, a Red-necked Grebe, American Wigeon, a selection gulls, Black-billed Magpie and more.