{"id":1942,"date":"2016-11-24T10:22:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T16:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2019-03-22T09:02:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:02:27","slug":"black-scoters-november-24-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/black-scoters-november-24-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Scoters, November 24, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a couple hours at Montrose this morning, November 24. I saw very little of interest, the highlight being 3 southbound Black Scoters. Typically at this time of the year one can expect to see loons, grebes, and a variety of waterfowl resting on Lake Michigan or flying by. I saw no loons, a couple Horned Grebes, and except for the scoters only Red-breasted Mergansers on the lake. November is the best month of the year for rare and unusual species, but the extended period of mild weather for the first 3 weeks of the month made for slow and unremarkable birding. Indian Summer does not do a fall birder good. Bring on the Arctic fronts. Link to my meager and unimpressive eBird checklist below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>eBird Checklist<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/view\/checklist\/S32691490\">http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/view\/checklist\/S32691490<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a couple hours at Montrose this morning, November 24. I saw very little of interest, the highlight being 3 southbound Black Scoters. Typically at this time of the year one can expect to see loons, grebes, and a variety of waterfowl resting on Lake Michigan or flying by. I saw no loons, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[32,116],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-bird-reports","tag-black-scoter","tag-waterfowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","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=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2579,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions\/2579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}