Sunday, 12 August 2018

[Maine-birds] Breeding plumage Red-throated Loon - Great Pond, Belgrade, ME today

While out for an afternoon boat ride today. I noticed a small loon from the distance and asked my husband to drive closer so I could check it out.  It was an adult male Red-throated Loon  in breeding plumage.  I first saw it about 2:25, east of the big boulders where the Cormorants roost in the widest part of Great Pond. I took a few photos then, but had to rush home for a new camera battery, he was in the same location 15 minutes later when we returned and where we left him at 3:01. He stayed up most of the time, only diving occasionally.

https://ebird.org/me/view/checklist/S47810054

 

New patch bird for me. 

 

  • Margaret Viens

 

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