{"id":1219,"date":"2013-04-10T21:01:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T01:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2013-04-11T06:02:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T10:02:38","slug":"the-long-tailed-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=1219","title":{"rendered":"The Long-tailed Duck…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…is a life bird for me. Thanks to Rob Stone alerting me, I was able to get to Glenmere Lake in Florida NY today after work to see some really good birds, including a beautiful Long-tailed Duck. Here is a very distant photo, heavily cropped:<\/p>\n

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A Long-tailed Duck, two Horned Grebes, and three Lesser Scaups in the distance out at Glenmere Lake 4\/10\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I got home I read John Haas’ post at Bashakill Birder<\/a>\u00a0and learned that due to the thunderstorms that passed through last night, there was a major fallout of birds. John wrote specifically about Sullivan County, but I imagine that I saw these birds in Orange County for the same reason. I had never birded at Glenmere Lake before, but it is now on my radar for birding spots. Here is my species list for the day:<\/p>\n

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Osprey at Glenmere Lake 4\/10\/13\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Canada Goose \u00a0X
\nMute Swan \u00a02
\nWood Duck \u00a04
\nMallard \u00a05
\nGreater Scaup \u00a01
\nLesser Scaup \u00a08
\nLong-tailed Duck \u00a01
\nBufflehead \u00a010
\nPied-billed Grebe \u00a04
\nHorned Grebe \u00a03
\nDouble-crested Cormorant \u00a05
\nTurkey Vulture \u00a03
\nOsprey \u00a02
\nBelted Kingfisher \u00a01
\nRed-bellied Woodpecker \u00a01
\nTree Swallow \u00a0X
\nBlack-capped Chickadee \u00a01
\nAmerican Robin \u00a0X
\nRed-wing Blackbird X<\/p>\n

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Here’s one more photo that includes five different types of water birds floating together:<\/p>\n

Click on the photos to enlarge.<\/p>\n

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In this photo: 1 Bufflehead, 1 Long-tailed Duck, 1 Pied-billed Grebe, 2 Horned Grebe, 1 Greater Scaup, and 10 Lesser Scaup at Glenmere Lake 4\/10\/13. I struggled with the Lesser Scaups vs Greater Scaups while I was in the field. I was fairly confident that I had one Greater Scaup while I was out there, \u00a0though I don’t know if I would have picked up on it if I didn’t know that Rob Stone had both scaups there earlier in the day. In this photo, I think the 2nd bird to the right of the Pied-billed Grebe might be the Greater Scaup, but it is really tough to tell.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…is a life bird for me. Thanks to Rob Stone alerting me, I was able to get to Glenmere Lake in Florida NY today after work to see some really good birds, including a beautiful Long-tailed Duck. Here is a very distant photo, heavily cropped: When I got home I read John Haas’ post at … Continue reading “The Long-tailed Duck…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-jF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}