{"id":4202,"date":"2021-02-02T10:42:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T16:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=4202"},"modified":"2021-02-02T16:58:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T22:58:45","slug":"long-tailed-duck-february-2-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/long-tailed-duck-february-2-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-tailed Duck, February 2, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2353\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/long-tailed-duck.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2353\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2353\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/long-tailed-duck.jpg\" width=\"300\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Long-tailed Duck with a fish (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A very tame female Long-tailed Duck showed up in the harbor on February 1. She was still there on February 2. The bird has a pale spot on the bill, a mark I associate with male Long-tailed Ducks, but I think the head is too dark for a young male and the scapulars are brown, not pale gray as would be expected on a young male Long-tailed. Note the small fish she caught in the photo. More photos of this bird are at my eBird checklist for the day, URL below.<\/p>\n<p>The west side of Montrose Harbor is still open and has been hosting a decent variety of waterfowl for us and for the time of the year, including Greater and Lesser Scaup, a Bufflehead, an American Black Duck, and until recently, a Brant and Snow Goose. This will probably change with the bitterly cold air forecast to arrive over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>eBird Checklist<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S80309835\">February 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very tame female Long-tailed Duck showed up in the harbor on February 1. She was still there on February 2. The bird has a pale spot on the bill, a mark I associate with male Long-tailed Ducks, but I think the head is too dark for a young male and the scapulars are brown, [&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],"class_list":["post-4202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-bird-reports","tag-long-tailed-duck","tag-waterfowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202","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=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4208,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions\/4208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}