{"id":1380,"date":"2015-01-19T15:43:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T21:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2019-03-22T14:24:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T19:24:29","slug":"great-black-backed-gull-and-red-throated-loon-january-19-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/great-black-backed-gull-and-red-throated-loon-january-19-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Black-backed Gull and Red-throated Loon, January 19, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1381\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/great-black-backed-gull.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1381\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/great-black-backed-gull-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Great Black-backed Gull\" title=\"Great Black-backed Gull\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1381\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/great-black-backed-gull-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/great-black-backed-gull-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/great-black-backed-gull.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Black-backed Gull  (<i>click to see the larger version<\/i>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A walk around Montrose this morning, January 19, yielded a couple good birds. While I was scanning the lake from the fishing pier I saw a Red-throated Loon on the water a few hundred yards offshore. The bird was slowly drifting to the north and I thought I could get a better look at it by walking north on the pier as it swam north but I lost sight of it. Red-throated Loons are rare in winter at Montrose, though they are the expected loon at this time of the year.<\/p>\n<p>I also had a first cycle Great Black-backed Gull near the parking lot adjacent to the bathroom building. The bird was actually up on the grass feeding on handouts like a Ring-billed Gull, a behavior I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen before for GBBG. The bird also has a bad left foot as can be seen in the photo below. I saw nothing else of note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A walk around Montrose this morning, January 19, yielded a couple good birds. While I was scanning the lake from the fishing pier I saw a Red-throated Loon on the water a few hundred yards offshore. The bird was slowly drifting to the north and I thought I could get a better look at it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[72,105,131,88],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-bird-reports","tag-great-black-backed-gull","tag-gulls","tag-loons","tag-red-throated-loon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","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=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}