{"id":13541,"date":"2024-07-07T17:27:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T21:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13541"},"modified":"2024-07-07T17:27:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T21:27:05","slug":"ulster-county-pacific-loon-07-07-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13541","title":{"rendered":"Ulster County PACIFIC LOON, 07\/07\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Believe it or not, I enjoyed a three-loon morning today. In Ulster County. In July. I can safely say I’ve never had a three-loon day anywhere in our area, at any time of the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A little background. Yesterday morning, Jeanne Cimorelli located a PACIFIC LOON in a raft of Common Loons at Ashokan Reservoir. To me this is a just a remarkable find. To begin with, finding nearly 20 Common Loons on a reservoir in Ulster County in July is something on its own. Add to that a rare Pacific Loon, which could have very easily been overlooked, and you have one very impressive observation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I couldn’t run for the bird yesterday, so I was up and at ’em early this morning and luckily the birds stuck around. The icing on the cake was relocating the Red-throated Loon in breeding plumage <\/a>at another area on the reservoir, giving a total of 3 loon species for the morning. This is not your typical summer birding, to say the least! Congrats to Jeanne on a great find.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Pacific Loon with Common Loons at Ashokan Reservoir, 07\/07\/24. The Pacific is the bird on the far right.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Fourth bird from the right: PACIFIC LOON at Ashokan Reservoir, 07\/07\/24. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

SATURDAY SHOTS: I birded locally on Saturday, hoping that the storms that rolled through early in the morning. would have grounded some shorebirds. The black dirt yielded a couple of Least Sandpipers, several Spotted Sandpipers, and many Killdeer. At 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, I was able to relocate the Short-billed Dowitcher that I thought was long gone. That bird made my day – it’s always a good bird for the county, and its plumage was striking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Short-billed Dowitcher at 6 1\/2 Station Rd. Sanctuary, 07\/06\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Killdeer chick in the black dirt region, 07\/06\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Killdeer in the onions. Black Dirt Region 07\/06\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Eastern Meadowlark in the black dirt, 07\/06\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Pacific Loon among Common Loons, Ashokan Reservoir, 07\/07\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Believe it or not, I enjoyed a three-loon morning today. In Ulster County. In July. I can safely say I’ve never had a three-loon day anywhere in our area, at any time of the year. A little background. Yesterday morning, Jeanne Cimorelli located a PACIFIC LOON in a raft of Common Loons at Ashokan Reservoir. … Continue reading “Ulster County PACIFIC LOON, 07\/07\/24”<\/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-13541","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-3wp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13541","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=13541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13550,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13541\/revisions\/13550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}