‘I’ve never seen that before in my life’

The WWF and locals report sightings of 10-15 eagles at a time in western Finland.

Swans have arrived early in Southeast Alaska this year, with most lakes still frozen and no green grass anywhere. Most lakes are frozen; the swan is sticking to a small patch of water surrounded by ice.

Eagle sighting during winter in Western Alaska.

After a record-low last winter, the birds are making a comeback. Redpolls, seen in two varieties in Alaska — the common and the hoary — have attracted scientists’ attention because the birds survive super-cold temperatures. Physiologist Laurence Irving ranked redpolls’ feathers just behind pine grosbeaks for “apparent usefulness for insulation.”Redpolls have a secret weapon other small birds, including chickadees, don’t possess: food pouches on each side of their necks.

A woman who put bird seed out in her yard in St. Chrysostome, in western P.E.I., was thrilled she ended up attracting a rare bird.

Some species have experienced a much greater decline than average. For the snowflake in Scandinavia there is talk of approx. 35 percent, patchwork 25 percent.

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After a day of birding on P.E.I., an Island woman returned home to find a rare white-winged dove at her backyard feeder.

Two swans are stuck in the ice at Mundy Pond in St. John’s this morning.

City officials were made aware of the situation through calls to 311 and by a pedestrian walking around the pond who flagged down a passing city

Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) seen in the north during typical nesting season.

It started when Jamie Brandon posted a picture of cattle egret in a field with cows at Great Barasway. When the dust cleared a whopping nine cattle egrets had been discovered making it the largest influx of cattle egrets in Newfoundland in living memory.

Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster) sighted far north of its usual tropical habitat.

Gray Catbird found northwest of its normal range.

It's believed the pine bunting has never been seen south of Alaska — until this week.

The latest group to feel the ongoing effect of Iceland’s poor summer weather this year is the country’s bird population. With few berries and seeds on trees and bushes in the southern half of the country, experts worry for the birds’ survival this winter.

Unusually mild weather and foggy mornings have caused many migratory birds to delay their departure south, according to Birdlife Finland.

Bald eagle feeds on seagull