{"id":2527,"date":"2019-03-18T06:14:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T11:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=2527"},"modified":"2019-03-21T10:44:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T15:44:03","slug":"montrose-white-winged-and-black-scoters-and-long-tailed-ducks-march-17-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/montrose-white-winged-and-black-scoters-and-long-tailed-ducks-march-17-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"White-winged and Black Scoters and Long-tailed Ducks, March 17, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a good day to look at Lake Michigan &#8211; overcast skies, a flat surface, and excellent visibility most of the way to the horizon, perfect conditions for looking for birds on the water. While scanning the lake I found several groups of White-winged Scoters, a female Black Scoter, and 4 Long-tailed Ducks. The White-winged Scoters (~20) were scattered in small flocks 1\/5 to 1\/4 mile offshore from the fishing pier. With one of these flocks was a female Black Scoter, a good bird for Montrose in the spring.  Finally, I saw a group of Long-tailed Ducks flying south far offshore. These birds landed eventually but disappeared because of distance. Also of note were about a dozen Double-crested Cormorants on the water crib a couple of miles offshore from Montrose, the beginnings of the nesting colony. Link to my eBird checklist for the day below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>eBird Checklist<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/view\/checklist\/S53931628\">https:\/\/ebird.org\/view\/checklist\/S53931628<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a good day to look at Lake Michigan &#8211; overcast skies, a flat surface, and excellent visibility most of the way to the horizon, perfect conditions for looking for birds on the water. While scanning the lake I found several groups of White-winged Scoters, a female Black Scoter, and 4 Long-tailed Ducks. The [&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":[32,33,116,31],"class_list":["post-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-bird-reports","tag-black-scoter","tag-long-tailed-duck","tag-waterfowl","tag-white-winged-scoter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527","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=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2533,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions\/2533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}