{"id":3666,"date":"2014-12-21T17:56:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T22:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2014-12-21T17:56:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T22:56:40","slug":"point-lookout-town-park-122014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3666","title":{"rendered":"Point Lookout Town Park, 12\/20\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A nice close look at a drake Harlequin Duck, Point Lookout Town Park, 12\/20\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was a crazy week at work which left me without much time for\u00a0birding. On\u00a0Saturday, however, things worked out pretty well for me. My sister was having a Christmas party at her place on Long Island, and also had to deliver a\u00a0stained glass window to a residence in, of all places, Point Lookout NY. After making my delivery, Tricia and I stopped by Point Lookout Town Park for a brief visit before the party. Thanks to\u00a0John Haas and Tom Reichert, both of which helped me out with the lay of the land. I did pretty well for a relatively quick stop,\u00a0seeing 10 different species of swimming waterbirds:<\/p>\n

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\nCanada Goose
\nCommon Eider
\nHarlequin Duck
\nLong-tailed Duck
\nRed-breasted Merganser
\nRed-throated Loon
\nCommon Loon
\nHorned Grebe
\nDouble-crested Cormorant<\/p>\n

It was a less than ideal day for photos, very gray and overcast, but many of the birds were quite accessible so that helped. I will be back on the island for Christmas, I am hoping to maybe sneak out to Point Lookout again if the weather is better. I highly recommend this spot – you can get great looks at some super birds.<\/p>\n

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Common Eiders at the end of the first jetty. Point Lookout Town Park, 12\/20\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This was certainly one of my best looks at a Red-throated Loon. Point Lookout Town\u00a0Park, 12\/20\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A Sanderling works the shoreline. Point Lookout Town Park, 12\/20\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Female Harlequin Duck, Point Lookout Town Park, 12\/20\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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One of two male Harlequin Ducks located near the third jetty at Point Lookout Town Park, 12\/20\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Red-breasted Merganser fly-by, Point Lookout Town Park, 12\/20\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a crazy week at work which left me without much time for\u00a0birding. On\u00a0Saturday, however, things worked out pretty well for me. My sister was having a Christmas party at her place on Long Island, and also had to deliver a\u00a0stained glass window to a residence in, of all places, Point Lookout NY. After … Continue reading “Point Lookout Town Park, 12\/20\/14”<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-X8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666","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=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3676,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions\/3676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}