I got a text from Adam Smith that he had a loon near the Martins Creek PPL power plant that he didn't think was a Common Loon, but he was looking at it through wind-blown rain, so he wasn't sure what it was. I headed up there about an hour later and, thankfully, the rain had subsided and the loon was still there. The upturned bill, the plain face, and speckled back confirmed that it was a Red-throated Loon. I got some fairly good, long distance photos of it.
I drove down to the boat launch area and found 28 Common Mergansers, 2 Double-crested Cormorants, 2 Great Blue Herons, and a Belted Kingfisher.
It was close to sunset when I got to the Green Pond area. Today, I couldn't find the 3 Pectoral Sandpipers in the Farmersville Road pond, which had filled up with water from the recent rains, but the Lesser Yellowlegs that I couldn't find yesterday was in the Green Pond Road pond along with 3 Killdeer.
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