{"id":3072,"date":"2016-03-25T21:22:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T21:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=3072"},"modified":"2020-04-06T11:08:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T11:08:26","slug":"return-of-the-loon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=3072","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Loon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Great<\/p>\n

A quick update from a couple of weeks ago and another visit to Salford Quays on a rare, sunny morning.<\/p>\n

Great to see the young\u00a0Great Northern Diver still on the\u00a0Quays. Known throughout North America and Canada as the Common Loon this time it was rather appropriately\u00a0on Ontario Basin.<\/p>\n

\"Ontario<\/p>\n

Ontario Basin complete with water ski ramps, multi coloured buoys and the occasional boat race.<\/p>\n

\"Great<\/p>\n

Really is an attractive bird since the previous visit the darker adult plumage has started to develop.<\/p>\n

\"Great<\/p>\n

Also noticeable that the eyes are taking on a reddish tinge. Still a few months to go before the full adult plumage is revealed. Unfortunately this is likely to occur at the same time as the bird flies north to its\u00a0 Icelandic breeding grounds<\/p>\n

\"Immature<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Great<\/p>\n

Still amazing to watch the Diver\u00a0swim underwater for a\u00a0hundred yards before taking a right hand turn through a canal and into the neighbouring basins on Merchant Quay. The length of time it can hold its breath is phenomenal.<\/p>\n

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Great to see the young\u00a0Great Northern Diver still on the\u00a0Quays ……….. this time it was rather appropriately\u00a0on Ontario Basin. Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[580,578,581],"class_list":["post-3072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","tag-common-loon","tag-great-northern-diver","tag-ontario-basin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3072"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6477,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions\/6477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}