Creamer’s Field is an 1800 acre former dairy that is now a waterfowl refuge on the edge of Fairbanks. When I was here four weeks ago there were thousands upon thousands of geese, cranes and ducks out on the fields — it felt like there was literally a bird on every square foot of land. Today it’s desolate, with perhaps two hundred geese and just a handful of cranes. Winter is most definitely on its way.
The forecast for most of the state is for rain and snow during the next week, so I may hole up in Fairbanks for a few days. The caribou are due on the Dempster starting in mid-October, and upwards of three thousand eagles will be descending on the Chilkat Eagle Preserve near Haines at about the same time, so I’d like to sort of wait out the weather and hopefully stick around long enough to see both of those events.
Don’t forget to wish Ma a happy birthday — e-mail@removed! Thanks!