{"id":10864,"date":"2015-03-23T20:59:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T20:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=10864"},"modified":"2015-03-23T20:59:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T20:59:37","slug":"the-long-staying-harley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/the-long-staying-harley\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long Staying &#8220;Harley&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saturday 14th March 2015<\/strong>. After a very rough crossing on the way back from our week on Shetland, it was nice to get our feet back on &#8220;Terra Firmer&#8221; and head straight off to Seaton Park and the River Don, to try and find the <strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Harlequin Duck<\/span><\/strong>. A first winter drake has been present on a small stretch of the river for many weeks but has not always been reliable, especially during recent weeks. After nearly two hours searching, After meeting a local birder, I finally found it 500 yards downstream from its favourite areas. A stroke of luck really as I had almost given up on seeing it. My fourth Harlequin Duck in Britain and a nice year tick. Beginning to get some colour but not as good as the drakes I saw at Barnegat Jetty in New Jersey, USA last year. Now a full summer drake in Britain would really be worth seeing. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Year List now on 149<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10865\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/J4X7490.jpg\" alt=\"_J4X7490\" width=\"1150\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/J4X7490.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/J4X7490-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/J4X7490-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/J4X7490-700x433.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10866\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Harlequin_J4X7443.jpg\" alt=\"Harlequin_J4X7443\" width=\"1150\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Harlequin_J4X7443.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Harlequin_J4X7443-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Harlequin_J4X7443-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Harlequin_J4X7443-700x433.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10867\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Harlequin_J4X7451.jpg\" alt=\"Harlequin_J4X7451\" width=\"1150\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Harlequin_J4X7451.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Harlequin_J4X7451-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Harlequin_J4X7451-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Harlequin_J4X7451-700x433.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10868\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Harlequin_J4X7481.jpg\" alt=\"Harlequin_J4X7481\" width=\"1150\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Harlequin_J4X7481.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Harlequin_J4X7481-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Harlequin_J4X7481-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Harlequin_J4X7481-700x433.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Harlequin Duck<\/strong> &#8211; Moulting 1st winter drake &#8211; River Don, Seaton Park, Aberdeen &#8211; March 14th 2015 &#8211; <em>Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6910\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Harlie-09653816.jpg\" alt=\"Harlie-09653816\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Harlie-09653816.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Harlie-09653816-150x92.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Harlie-09653816-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Harlie-09653816-700x433.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Harlequin Duck<\/strong> &#8211; Adult drake &#8211; Barnegat Jetty, New Jersey, USA &#8211; February 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 14th March 2015. After a very rough crossing on the way back from our week on Shetland, it was nice to get our feet back on &#8220;Terra Firmer&#8221; and head straight off to Seaton Park and the River Don, to try and find the Harlequin Duck. A first winter drake has been present on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,606,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-birdsof2015","category-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}