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Loon - Jug Bay

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danny bystrak

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danny bystrak

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Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:51:00 -0700

While sitting on my bucket yesterday at 4 pm, I realized I was looking at a 
loon.  The light was as bad as it could be, and I kept going back and forth 
between Common and Red-throated (it was also 1/2 mile away), because although it 
was wildly preening the entire time, during occasional pauses it would sit with 
the bill pointing up briefly, and about half the time, I thought the bill had 
that distinctive RTLO shape.  In the end, however, I felt that the silhouette 
was more of a Common.  At 8 pm it was back and the light was better.  In that 
view I felt I could see it well enough to say it was a non-breeding-plumaged 
Common.  Reading Bill's post about a COLO in Western MD makes one wonder what's 
up.

Danny Bystrak
Bristol, AA Co.