We headed off to Miller Beach in Indiana today to see if we could find the scoters and other such hard-to-find avifauna that people reported seeing yesterday. Of course, we saw squat, because squat is what we see at Miller’s. The beach always has plenty of gulls, but the oft-reported rarities are never there when we are.<\/p>\n
The good news, though, is that we stopped at a few places on the south side of Chicago and managed to find a lifer at Calumet Beach: a CACKLING GOOSE. It’s a fairly new species that was split off from the Canada Goose in 2004, and we’ve been scouring flocks of Canadas for years looking for them. They’re supposed to be a little smaller than Canadas, but truth is, they’re a lot <\/em>smaller. The one we saw looked like a toy Canada goose. So in the end, it was an easy ID. And, as luck would have it, it’s the third little year bird in a row to be a lifer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We headed off to Miller Beach in Indiana today to see if we could find the scoters and other such hard-to-find avifauna that people reported seeing yesterday. Of course, we saw squat, because squat is what we see at Miller’s. The beach always has plenty of gulls, but the oft-reported rarities are never there when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifers","category-list"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}