{"id":13536,"date":"2024-07-05T16:40:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T20:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13536"},"modified":"2024-07-05T16:40:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T20:40:06","slug":"ulster-county-red-throated-loon-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13536","title":{"rendered":"Ulster County Red-throated Loon in July?!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was feeling uninspired this morning when I woke up, so I looked at my emails to see what the rare bird alerts in our area held. Peter Schoenberger reported a RED-THROATED LOON at Ashokan Reservoir. I clicked on the report, and although distant, the photo he included was amazing – the bird was in beautiful plumage. I knew right then what my plans for the morning were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A couple of hours later, I was at the reservoir and had relocated the bird. It was distant, as I assumed it would be, but still, I got great scope views of something that who knows if we will ever see again in the area – a RTLO in breeding plumage. I’m half tempted to go again tomorrow morning in the hopes that the bird will be closer to the shore. What a treat! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyways, here are my photos – super duper heavy crop here! The bird was out there! Huge thanks to Peter for posting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was feeling uninspired this morning when I woke up, so I looked at my emails to see what the rare bird alerts in our area held. Peter Schoenberger reported a RED-THROATED LOON at Ashokan Reservoir. I clicked on the report, and although distant, the photo he included was amazing – the bird was in … Continue reading “Ulster County Red-throated Loon in July?!?!”<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rarities","category-ulster-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3wk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13536","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=13536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13540,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13536\/revisions\/13540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}