After several visits to East Shore Park, this morning I finally saw the continuing non-breeding plumage Red-throated Loon at East Shore Park, offshore to the north. So many times I only saw the even-longer-continuing non-breeding plumage Common Loons, which at a distance in heat shimmer can look similar, that I doubted the Red-throated was still around, and I would have doubted its very existence despite the numerous reports if not for Jay McGowan’s confirming photo on 11 April. The Red-throated is very pale and evenly gray on the crown and down the back of the neck, with none of the Common’s jagged pattern, and of course the Red-throated lacks the Common’s steep forehead. Amazingly, I took what for me is a pretty good photo.
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