Plants

Ripe blueberries (Vaccinium ovalifolium) in early June?

Early Ripe Blueberries (Vaccinium ovalifolium)

Very early berries this year.

Early Blueberries (Vaccinium corymbosum)

Salmon Berries (Rubus spectabilis) Early

Early salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis) boom

Early bloom of salmonberry bushes.

Salmonberries (Rubus spectabilis) are in full bloom on Baranof Island.

Early blooming salmonberry (was'x'aan tléiGu and blueberry (naanyaa kanat'aayi - Tlingit language) blossoms.

Early Salmonberry Blossoms in February on Kodiak Island

Salmonberries (Rubus spectabilis) Blooming in February

Early blueberries in Jakolof Bay, Alaska

Blueberries are ripe early!

Raspberries (Rubus idaeus) are Ripe

Year of the Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis)

Early and abundant salmonberries (Rubus chamaemorus)

Early Salmonberries (Rubus chamaemorus)

Abundant berry harvest this year in southcentral Alaska

Salmonberry blossom seem a little early this year.

An abundant harvest of various berries this year.

Silver salmon, Brant geese and berries.

A great year for harvesting mossberries.

The blueberries are so ripe now that the best time to pick those are late morning while they are chilled down and the leaves are not so moist, otherwise they fall easily or squish in your fingers.

7-24-13 More salmon berries - Nondalton, Alaska, USA

The past couple of years there haven't been a lot to pick.

A terrible year for berry harvest in the Upper Nushagak River.

7-14-14 Abundant bees & berries - King Cove, Alaska, USA

Crooked Island, 25 Miles south of Togiak. Remnants of blackberries.

Little early for blueberry to be ripe.

More leaf miners this year, less blue berry blossoms, but more cranberry.

Cloudberries observed in new area around Seldovia.

Drought, causing low waters in Goodnews River, no blackberries, and early cool weather.