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Arctic Bird watching Goosander
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    • Ekahau
  • Updated By Ekahau on July 6, 2007
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    • Goosander - Arctic
    Goosander
    by Ekahau
    This is a really beautiful sawbill duck that loves the Lena Delta and lives in fresh water. They have a bright red bill, green head, dark black back all on a shade of light pinkish white body.

    When you watch them dive the seem to be underwater for ever would love to see how far down they go.

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    Arctic Loon on the Lena Delta
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  • Updated By Ekahau on July 6, 2007
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    • Arctic Loon on Lena - Arctic
    Arctic Loon on Lena
    by Ekahau

    The Arctic Loon is one of those birds you hope to see if you like Birds. The photo is very small but the Artic Loon is beautiful. Sort of a middle sized black colored bird with white spots and a gray face and nape and a bold black neck.

    Listen here to the Arctic Loon voice very beautiful.

    What a beautiful bird one of those wonderful moments

    Do I need say more

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    cold yellow sea
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  • Updated By Ekahau on July 6, 2007
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    • Ice on a yellow sea - Arctic
    Ice on a yellow sea
    by Ekahau
    While I was in the Far North I was luck to see a natural phenomena know as an ice surge sort of a Frozen margarita tsunamis with huge block of Ice and yellow slush washed ashore by very strong winds blowing into the Lena Delta. It was real mountains of Ice ridges lifted onto land. It seems the wind blows the thick multiyear Ice that is near the pole into the thinner annual ice near shore. Anyway it really came quite a distance onto land knocking down power lines and blocking the road near the sea.

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    Arctic Nature watching --Great Crested Grebe
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  • Updated By Ekahau on July 6, 2007
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    • Great Crested Grebe - Arctic
    Great Crested Grebe
    by Ekahau
    The Delta of the Lena happens to be by far the largest delta in the Artic Ocean and it entirely tundra covered. The Lena delta is also the riches wildlife are in the Artic regions of the world in term of breeding and total number of species.

    In the short summer mid June to mid August they have counted as in 1 2 3 4 – 17 types of mammals and 79 different birds. In fact so many birds that they now have birder tours costing real money to see this beautiful wildlife area

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  • Website: http://www.goyakutia.com/chapter.asp?c=511&lang=en
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    Way so far
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  • Updated By Ekahau on July 6, 2007
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    Downtown
    by Ekahau
    Here is yet another piece of advice for you: if you are going to go to Tiksi, make sure you
    have the necessary permit to enter the border zone, for Tiksi is not only situated on the border of the Arctic ice, but also on the geographical border of Russia. One never thinks of the arctic ocean as a port but believe it or not it is. Ports mean seaman and papers even if you come in the back door.

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    SUN alway SUN
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    • Ekahau
  • Updated By Ekahau on July 6, 2007
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    Arctic Ocean July
    by Ekahau
    I had seen the white nights in Saint Petersburg. Ya white but well a little on the dim side. Outside it was broad daylight. Not like the usual white night, when it was light but you still could relax, and hide from the intrusive gaze of the sun. It was quite simply broad daylight, and the bright sun glared unrelentingly into your eyes. The first night the sun was so bright and exciting that I thought we would never want to sleep. But the following nights it just tormented and mocked someone who had flown 7 time zones to get there.

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  • Directions: The photo below is a scene of the melting sea at about 1 am early July. It is kind of like a sulshie or frozen margirita
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    Lena River Delta and Birds lots of Birds
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    • Ekahau
  • Updated By Ekahau on July 6, 2007
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    • Anser albifrons babies - Arctic
    Anser albifrons babies
    by Ekahau
    The Lena, the greatest Siberian river, is among the biggest rivers in the world. No other river in Northern Eurasia forms such a vast and grand delta (covering an area of 32,000 square km .This is a huge network of numerous large and small tributaries, channels and lakes with over 1,500 islands, varying in size. The Ust-Lensky Preserve, occupying an area of 1,433,000 ha, is located in the western part of the Lena Delta.

    In 1998, the Lena River delta Ust-Lensky Preserve was nominated for inclusion onto the World Heritage list. And as I write this in Aug of 2003 the preserve was microsecond away from approval.

    Each year in June huge numbers of diving waterfowl - swans, ducks, geese, snipes, phalaropes, gulls, terns, skua, prey during the daytime and singing sparrow birds strive to get there flying along the coasts from east and west, as well as from south flying along the river valley. For the overwhelming majority of the bird species the nesting time they spend in the Delta Preserve is of vital importance. If you visit in Early July you will get to see all the really cute chicks a really big auh cute.

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  • Phone: 7-411-2-446 815
  • Directions: " Lena-Nordenskiold Biological Station", Kulakovskogo street 12-59, Tiski, Anser albifrons White-fronted Goose with chicks--soooo cute ya
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    BIOLOGICAL STATION 'LENA-NORDENSKJOLD'
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    • Ekahau
  • Updated By Ekahau on July 6, 2007
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    • Lena River - Arctic
    Lena River
    by Ekahau
    INTERNATIONAL BIOLOGICAL STATION
    'LENA-NORDENSKJOLD'

    Well the major reason for coming this far north for me is the bird. Turns out that the Lena River Delta is the main area for nesting of migratory birds in the Arctic. There are 125 species of Lena River delta birds and these populations probably, are unique in the Arctic.

    The most intresting were Bewick's Swan, Black Brant, Snow Goose, Common and Steller's Eiders, Sabine's and Ross's Gulls, and the Peregrine Falcon.

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  • Directions: Photo is of the Lena River great Birding area late June early July
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    acquaintances help
    Ekahau
  • Updated By Ekahau on July 6, 2007
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    down town
    by Ekahau
    I meet a guy who was working on the giant mammoths frozen in the Artic really he would come here ever year from a University in the USA and he was sort of stuck at our hotel waiting to get to the Taimyr peninsula, where about 500 woolly mammoth skeletons are buried under every square kilometer of permafrost. He was studying the people who built the ancient huts constructed of mammoth bones.

    Anyway we walk around town together and since I never meet a stranger I sort of wondered over and talk to ever one by the time I was ready to leave about I had lots of acquaintances even went to Orthodox church with the lady who ran a little shop.

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    land of rusty cranes
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  • Updated By Ekahau on July 6, 2007
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    rusty cranes
    by Ekahau
    The City is in decline with all the changes in the New Russia and seems to be rusting away.

    They say the navigation period this far north is 21/2 months and I wonder with global warming it it might be up to three months now.


    The Big day here is Feb 19th that is the first day the whole sun can be visualized above the horizon although the first rays and slivers are showing up on the 7th of February.

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