Today around midday I took photographs of what looks to me like a young Pacific Loon off Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, swimming slowly into the mouth of Mill Basin inlet. The tide was about half and rising, and many Common Loons, Red-throated Loons, and Red-breasted Mergansers had gathered in the inlet and were actively fishing. I only got some distant photos that may not be definitively identifiable, though. It may be worth looking in the area tomorrow to try to document it better, though I lost it before I left and another birder went and checked not long afterward and wasn't able to find it.
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