{"id":962,"date":"2014-02-01T17:08:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T23:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=962"},"modified":"2019-03-27T09:23:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T14:23:50","slug":"red-throated-loon-white-winged-scoters-and-long-tailed-duck-february-1-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/red-throated-loon-white-winged-scoters-and-long-tailed-duck-february-1-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-throated Loon, White-winged Scoters, and Long-tailed Duck, February 1, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_963\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/montrose_ducks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-963\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/montrose_ducks-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Waterfowl at Montrose Harbor\" title=\"Waterfowl at Montrose Harbor\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-963\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/montrose_ducks-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/montrose_ducks-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/montrose_ducks-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/montrose_ducks.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waterfowl at Montrose Harbor (<i>click to see the larger version<\/i>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Karen and I walked around Montrose for a little while this morning. The lake was covered in ice for as far as we could see but there were a few open areas of water, and these open areas of water had birds.<\/p>\n<p>Our biggest surprise was a juvenile Red-throated Loon off the end of the fishing pier. We actually heard the bird calling when we were walking on the beach but we didn&#8217;t know what it was. We thought it might be a person yelling for help since it sounded like a cry or a wail. When we got to the edge of the beach we could see the loon on the water and see and hear it calling. Mystery solved, and I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ve ever heard a Red-throated Loon call before. Unfortunately the bird flew off to the south before I could get my camera on it. There were also a lot of waterfowl here, including 40+ White-winged Scoters, a female type Long-tailed Duck, 5 Greater Scaup, Common and Red-breasted Mergansers, and Common Goldeneye.<\/p>\n<p>The other area of open water was at the harbor mouth. We had 15 more White-winged Scoters here, as well as 35 or so Greater Scaup and a few Common Goldeneye and Red-breasted Mergansers (see the photo above). Not a bad start to February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen and I walked around Montrose for a little while this morning. The lake was covered in ice for as far as we could see but there were a few open areas of water, and these open areas of water had birds. Our biggest surprise was a juvenile Red-throated Loon off the end of 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":[28],"tags":[33,131,88,116,31],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-bird-reports","tag-long-tailed-duck","tag-loons","tag-red-throated-loon","tag-waterfowl","tag-white-winged-scoter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","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=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2757,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/2757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}