Mud Bay News

Michael Craig looks for shorebirds last Friday at the Mariner Park lagoon. Wagner was part of a group doing shorebird monitoring in advance of this weekend's Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival.

Birders counted 12,395 individuals during the 112th Annual Audubon Bird Count Saturday, a blustery day around Kachemak Bay that ushered in yet another storm and dim visibility.

The Escopeta Oil and Gas Spartan 151 jack-up rig lies at anchor off of Grewingk Glacier in Kachemak Bay on Monday morning, Aug.

A record number of Homer birders documented a record number of birds at the Christmas Bird Count last Saturday.

An Asian subspecies of Horned Lark was among the day's biggest surprise - " a lark now sitting on the wrong continent far from its normal migration route.