{"id":5274,"date":"2015-12-26T17:19:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T22:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5274"},"modified":"2015-12-26T17:52:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T22:52:03","slug":"suffolk-county-tufted-duck-122615","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5274","title":{"rendered":"Suffolk County TUFTED DUCK, 12\/26\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5281\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5281\" style=\"width: 965px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=5281\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5281\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5281\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_6719-1.jpg\" alt=\"~TUFTED DUCK at Lake Capri in West Islip, NY 12\/26\/15.~\" width=\"965\" height=\"1206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_6719-1.jpg 965w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_6719-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_6719-1-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_6719-1-819x1024.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~TUFTED DUCK at Lake Capri in West Islip, NY 12\/26\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tricia and I had a great time on\u00a0Christmas Eve and Christmas day in\u00a0Suffolk County, Long Island, celebrating with our families. On our way out of town today, we stopped at Lake Capri in West Islip to try for the<strong> Tufted Duck<\/strong> that has been reported there. The earliest reports\u00a0on\u00a0eBird are from 12\/13\/15,\u00a0and the most recent report was from Christmas Eve, so I was feeling confident that the bird would still be present. Shortly after arriving, we realized that viewing at Lake Capri is less than ideal. As far as we could tell,\u00a0the only viewing area was\u00a0along Montauk Highway at the south end of the lake. There is a chain link fence and much vegetation to look through, which made viewing and taking photos a little bit of a challenge. I did better capturing the bird with my iPhone through the spotting scope, but for them the\u00a0photo quality is then pretty poor. Previous reports indicate that this is a young male TUDU;\u00a0it is a beautiful bird and\u00a0life bird <strong>#344<\/strong> for me.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5276\" style=\"width: 2282px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=5276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5276\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5276\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2919.jpg\" alt=\"~\" width=\"2282\" height=\"2852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2919.jpg 2282w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2919-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2919-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2919-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2919-1000x1250.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~Here&#8217;s an iPhone shot of the Tufted Duck, digiscoped through my spotting scope. This shot almost has the feel of a painting to me. TUDU Lake Capri in West Islip, NY 12\/26\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tricia and I had a great time on\u00a0Christmas Eve and Christmas day in\u00a0Suffolk County, Long Island, celebrating with our families. On our way out of town today, we stopped at Lake Capri in West Islip to try for the Tufted Duck that has been reported there. The earliest reports\u00a0on\u00a0eBird are from 12\/13\/15,\u00a0and the most recent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5274\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Suffolk County TUFTED DUCK, 12\/26\/15&#8221;<\/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":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rarities","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1n4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274","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=5274"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5283,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions\/5283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}