[obol] Arctic Loon Sunday

[Stephen Ladd-Wilson]

We saw the Arctic Loon yesterday at 12:41 PM about 300 yards east of 
the bridge.

Stephen & Lisa Ladd-Wilson, Portland, Oregon

On Sunday, Dec 23, 2007, at 16:21 US/Pacific, Grant Canterbury wrote:

> OBOL:
>
> Got to Brownsmead about 8:00 in moderate rain, and scanned around Blind
> Slough on both sides of the bridge for about an hour and a half with a 
> half
> dozen other birders.  There were lots of Western Grebes, cormorants, 
> and
> several Red-throated Loons; I was just about to head back home when we 
> saw a
> large white-bellied loon fly in from downstream and land back east of 
> the
> bridge.  With the star having arrived fashionably late, we got a nice
> prolonged look at the Arctic Loon foraging actively on small fish in 
> company
> with two or three Red-throated Loons, showing a distinct contrast with 
> them
> in its size and build and prominently flashing the white flank patch.  
> Nice
> to see this bird, I appreciate it getting lost on the way south from
> Siberia.  I take it this is most likely to be the viridigularis 
> subspecies
> by its size and our geographic location?
>
> - Grant Canterbury
>
>
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