{"id":1580,"date":"2015-12-07T07:37:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T13:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2019-03-22T12:43:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T17:43:20","slug":"white-winged-scoters-and-long-tailed-duck-december-6-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/white-winged-scoters-and-long-tailed-duck-december-6-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"White-winged Scoters and Long-tailed Duck, December 6, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1581\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/montrose-sunrise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1581\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/montrose-sunrise-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Montrose Sunrise\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1581\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/montrose-sunrise-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/montrose-sunrise-150x84.jpg 150w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/montrose-sunrise-624x350.jpg 624w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/montrose-sunrise.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Montrose Sunrise (<em>click to see a larger version<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I birded Montrose for about an hour this morning, December 6. Most of that hour was spent at the end of the fishing pier looking at Lake Michigan. Except for Red-breasted Mergansers not much was moving, though I did have 3 northbound White-winged Scoters. There wasn&#8217;t much on the lake either; I guess most of the expected winter waterfowl are still to the north of us and will come down with colder weather.<\/p>\n<p>When I was done looking at Lake Michigan I walked over to the harbor to look for the Long-tailed Duck, and after a little searching found it in the channel between the docks at the east end of the harbor, pretty much where it&#8217;s been since it first showed up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I birded Montrose for about an hour this morning, December 6. Most of that hour was spent at the end of the fishing pier looking at Lake Michigan. Except for Red-breasted Mergansers not much was moving, though I did have 3 northbound White-winged Scoters. There wasn&#8217;t much on the lake either; I guess most of [&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":[33,116,31],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-bird-reports","tag-long-tailed-duck","tag-waterfowl","tag-white-winged-scoter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","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=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2651,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}