St. George Day 8
Last morning of packing, goodbyes, and starting to work on a school bulletin board that celebrates Spring. The board has a theme of red-legged kittiwakes sitting on [...]
St. George Day 7
Day Seven Peaceful weather today, and we made the most of it with some easy time outside. Emma finished her seabird finger puppets, and we talked about [...]
St. George Day 6
Beautiful sunshine and energy today. Emma learned about different seabird species that breed on the Pribilofs and started to make a few seabird finger-puppets. I was able [...]
St. George Day 5
Another windy day, but no rain or snow and the light was dramatic and bold again. It’s hard to capture the wind in photos, the way you [...]
St. George Day 4
The wind has died down slightly, and the snow has turned to rain... Emma got creative with painting wooden fish, and we read that Pacific Halibut was [...]
St. George Day 3
Stormy wintery day on St. George Island. Blowing snow and a cold strong wind made it hard to even walk outside. It was a good day to [...]
St. George Day 2
It was a stormy Saturday on St. George Island, with the west wind gusting 40-50mph; too windy for walking and too rough to be safely on the [...]
St. George Island in February: Day 1
This morning I flew from Anchorage to Unalaska, and then switched onto a smaller plane to St. George Island. I was the only one on this second [...]
Seabird Modeling and The Fun Game.
We began the final day of Art Camp making seabird models for our Seabird Colony Diorama. We placed each seabird on the cliffs in the appropriate nesting [...]
Murre Chicks Pop-ups and Kittiwake Landings
We started the day by creating pop-up cards. The outside of the cards featured blue or green murre eggs. The eggs cracked and out popped murre chicks! [...]
The Puffin Boat and The Big Float
We kicked of an eventful first day of Art and Seabird Camp by creating puffin-shaped boats. Building “The Puffin Boat” includes origami, coloring, cutting out multiple stencils [...]
The Grub Hub and The Magical Mural
We started the day by gathering flowers, dried grasses and other found objects to finish construction of our artificial seabird nesting cliff. The cliff is full of [...]
St. Paul Island
Today we had a small number of participants come check out some seaduck stomach samples. Thanks to Amos Philemonoff and Anthony Kushin for gathering and keeping these [...]
St. Paul Island
During the misty early morning, Seabird Camp Intern Ashley Kushin joined her cousin Destiny Kushin, who is working with ACSPI’s Ecosystem Conservation Department, under the Reef Cliffs [...]
Colors of the Past
The 2022 St George Art and Seabird Camp will feature several newly-invented paper crafts, a simulated sea monitoring activity and a mural themed “St. George in My [...]
Seabird Camp 2022
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Seabird Camp 2022 has been changed from the traditional all ages kid afternoon day camp followed by a weekend teen overnight camp to [...]
2021 Seabird Camp Final Day
Seabird Camp 2021 came to a close today with a family hike along the bluff at SW. A fun afternoon was had by all who joined in. [...]
2021 Seabird Camp Day 5
Friday, July 23, 2021 Today was filled to the last moment with a variety of activities. We began the afternoon with a visit from the Unangam Tuunu [...]
Final Day of Art Camp
Art Camp wrapped up on St. George with t-shirts and a puppet show! The Campers used stencils to outline designs that were enhanced with fabric paint, and [...]
2021 St. George Art Camp Day 2
Tuesday: Make Finger puppets (color, cut-out and glue). Allow time for kids to play with new finger puppets.
2021 St. George Art Camp Day 1
Monday: At St. George Seabird Art Camp kids learned about this year’s theme: Every bird has its place. They made seabird figurines out of clay and placed [...]
2021 Seabird Camp Day 4
Thursday July 22, 2021 Today was an afternoon full of Plankton and Food Chain activities. headed to the floating dock to do our own plankton tows. Thanks [...]
2021 Seabird Camp Day 3
Wednesday, July 21, 2021 This afternoon of Seabird Camp was spent on the Ridge Wall/ Southwest Point side of the Island. We were able to meet with [...]
2021 Seabird Camp Day 2
Tuesday July 20, 2021 A 2nd successful day of Seabird Camp! Today began with an activity tye-dying face masks to wear to prevent the spread of Covid [...]
First day of Seabird Camp 2021!
What a great first day of Seabird Camp 2021! We started off with some “I spy” to help focus in on the physical characteristics that help us [...]