Audubon Seward Birding trip

Over the weekend I took my family down to Seward to join in the Annual Anchorage Audubon Seward field trip. We arrived on Friday evening around 4pm and after checkin at our lodging, took our son for a walk. We made our way to the boardwalk at Benny Benson Park where Common Goldeneye's where swimming in the half frozen water. After stretching our legs, we made our way back to the car to return to our room when my wife calmly informed me that there was a bird on a wire above the boardwalk. Sure enough, a Belted Kingfisher perched high above with a great view of it's fishing area. That was a "first" for 2016 of which there would be many more in the next 24 hours.