{"id":11396,"date":"2022-01-09T18:25:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T23:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11396"},"modified":"2022-01-09T18:25:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T23:25:14","slug":"a-couple-good-birds-close-to-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11396","title":{"rendered":"A Couple Good Birds Close to Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My first stop on this icy, cold, morning with freezing rain was at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, which thankfully is only a mile or so from our house. Peter and Joe Chernak reported a couple of Canvasbacks there late yesterday, and I was hoping the birds were still around. When I first arrived, I was not having any luck with my targets, but I did locate a pretty darn good bird for the county &#8211; a single Common Goldeneye. Then, partially hidden by Canada Geese, I located one and then two CANVASBACKS. Canvasback is a really good bird for Orange County &#8211; I checked my personal records and I&#8217;ve only had them in the county two times prior to today. Huge thanks to Peter and Joe for finding and reporting the birds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/010922-CANV.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/010922-CANV-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/010922-CANV-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/010922-CANV-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/010922-CANV-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/010922-CANV-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/010922-CANV-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/010922-CANV-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>~Two Canvasbacks with a trio of Ring-necked Ducks, a Mute Swan, and some Canada Geese. 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary 01\/09\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/010922-BLVU.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/010922-BLVU-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/010922-BLVU-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/010922-BLVU-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/010922-BLVU-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/010922-BLVU-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/010922-BLVU-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/010922-BLVU-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/010922-BLVU.jpg 1653w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>~A pair of Black Vultures on Lower Wisner Road, 01\/09\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/123121-FRGU-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/123121-FRGU-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/123121-FRGU-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/123121-FRGU-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/123121-FRGU-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/123121-FRGU-2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/123121-FRGU-2-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/123121-FRGU-2-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>~It was slim pickins for photos today, so I&#8217;m throwing in a shot of the Franklin&#8217;s Gull that I took last week and never processed. Newburgh Waterfront, 12\/31\/21.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first stop on this icy, cold, morning with freezing rain was at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, which thankfully is only a mile or so from our house. Peter and Joe Chernak reported a couple of Canvasbacks there late yesterday, and I was hoping the birds were still around. When I first arrived, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11396\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Couple Good Birds Close to Home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2XO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11396","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=11396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11401,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11396\/revisions\/11401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}