{"id":1049,"date":"2014-03-07T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T17:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2019-03-27T09:20:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T14:20:35","slug":"red-throated-loon-white-winged-scoters-long-tailed-ducks-and-snow-bunting-march-7-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/red-throated-loon-white-winged-scoters-long-tailed-ducks-and-snow-bunting-march-7-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-throated Loon, White-winged Scoters, Long-tailed Ducks, and Snow Bunting, March 7, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1050\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/red-throated-loon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1050\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/red-throated-loon-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Red-throated Loon\" title=\"Red-throated Loon\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1050\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/red-throated-loon-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/red-throated-loon-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/red-throated-loon.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red-throated Loon (<i>click to see the larger version<\/i>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is beginning to sound like a broken record. Lake Michigan was ice covered from horizon to horizon but there were a few areas of open water and these open areas had birds. Best was probably the Red-throated Loon at the harbor mouth. Unfortunately the bird flushed when a fisherman walked onto the north pier. This must have been one desperate fisherman as there was barely enough water to fish in. There were also a dozen or so White-winged Scoters and a drake Long-tailed Duck here.<\/p>\n<p>A larger group of ducks (100-150 birds) were in the lake a couple hundred yards north of the end of the fishhook pier. I didn&#8217;t have my scope but most appeared to be scaup, White-winged Scoters, and mergansers. Another small pool of water south of here held more White-winged Scoters and 2 Long-tailed Ducks.<\/p>\n<p>A few ducks are hanging on in the ever decreasing water hole near the bend of the point. It&#8217;s really a sad sight. There were probably more birds standing on the ice around the hole than actually in the water, and there were multiple dead ducks scattered around.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I heard a Snow Bunting flying over the beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is beginning to sound like a broken record. Lake Michigan was ice covered from horizon to horizon but there were a few areas of open water and these open areas had birds. Best was probably the Red-throated Loon at the harbor mouth. Unfortunately the bird flushed when a fisherman walked onto the north pier. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[33,145,131,88,164,116,31],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-bird-reports","tag-long-tailed-duck","tag-longspurs","tag-loons","tag-red-throated-loon","tag-snow-bunting","tag-waterfowl","tag-white-winged-scoter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2754,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/2754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}