So today I took a trip to Poplar Island which is in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. We took a bus tour and saw many amazing birds including many lifers. I heard before that certain types of birds that I thought spent the fall and winter in the state are known to say year round (i.e. scoters and merg…

[image] kaiju_dino10: So what caused these birds to not migrate and apparently not breed where they’re staying at? This behavior is not common among migratory waterfowls, but is not unlikely also. Some migratory birds do not return to their breeding places (e.g few lesser whistling ducks, ga…

[image] kaiju_dino10: So what caused these birds to not migrate and apparently not breed where they’re staying at? See this post regarding gulls and loons. The answer will be the same for scoters, long-tailed ducks, and red-breasted mergansers. Immature sea ducks regularly summer in bays and …

Here in Northeast Ohio, we have a male lesser scaup that’s been around for a few years now. It mainly stays in a stretch of the twisty Cuyahoga River about a mile and a half (as the duck flies) from the mouth of the river where it meets Lake Erie. We call him Lester. We think we see him with a femal…

When I lived in Minnesota, one year there was a Greater White-fronted Goose that decided to spend the summer in a nearby marshy area. I remember it clearly because every single time I went to one of my favorite spots, I had to report that “rare” goose. I remember at one point I started commenting o…

[IMG_5639] [IMG_5626] [IMG_5630] [IMG_5564] [IMG_5565] Below are some images of the scoters I saw with my spotting scope at that location for reference.

Winter birds staying throughout the summer

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Winter birds staying throughout the summer

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