{"id":11329,"date":"2021-12-30T15:04:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T20:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11329"},"modified":"2021-12-30T15:04:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T20:04:30","slug":"good-birding-back-in-orange-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11329","title":{"rendered":"Good Birding Back in Orange County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I spent the last two days birding locally and was lucky enough to get some good birds. Yesterday morning I birded the black dirt; early on I found a handful of American Pipits feeding on some piles of discarded onions, but the real highlight came a little later on Turtle Bay Road, where I located a single GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE among a flock of approximately 1,000 Canada Geese. In the evening I went gulling at the Newburgh Waterfront with Bruce Nott. While we were together, we had (5) species of gull (Ring-billed, Herring, Great Black-backed, LESSER BLACK-BACKED, and ICELAND GULL), but Bruce was finishing up a remarkable (7) gull day (same as above plus: FRANKLIN’S, and GLAUCOUS). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Always a favorite of mine – Common Loon at Greenwood Lake, 12\/30\/21.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This morning I was sort of taking it easy and I just visited some nearby lakes: Wickham, Greenwood, Round, and Walton. I had a total of (9) species of waterfowl: Mute Swan, Canada Goose, Mallard, A. Black Duck, Ring-necked Duck, Bufflehead, Common Merganser, Hooded Merganser, and the highlight of the morning, a relatively cooperative COMMON LOON. The loon was at Greenwood Lake; the bird was not too far out and I stood on the shore patiently until the bird came close enough for some decent shots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~COLO at Greenwood Lake, 12\/30\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Regular readers of this blog know how much I like pipits – American Pipit on a pile of onions in the black dirt, 12\/29\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Can you pick out the ICELAND GULL? Hint: it’s the one with the very pale primaries. Newburgh Waterfront, 12\/29\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Lesser Black-backed Gull at Newburgh Waterfront, 12\/29\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Greater White-fronted Goose at Turtle Bay Road, 12\/29\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more shot of the COLO at Greenwood Lake, 12\/30\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent the last two days birding locally and was lucky enough to get some good birds. Yesterday morning I birded the black dirt; early on I found a handful of American Pipits feeding on some piles of discarded onions, but the real highlight came a little later on Turtle Bay Road, where I located … Continue reading “Good Birding Back in Orange County”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,36,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-gulls","category-orangecounty","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2WJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11329"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11343,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329\/revisions\/11343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}