{"id":13113,"date":"2024-02-11T17:02:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T22:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13113"},"modified":"2024-02-11T17:02:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T22:02:57","slug":"pelagic-teaser-sunday-snow-geese-02-11-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13113","title":{"rendered":"Pelagic Teaser & Sunday Snow Geese, 02\/11\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The big news is that on Saturday I went on a 12 hour pelagic birding trip out of Brooklyn with American Princess Cruises<\/a>. It was a really good trip, and I will publish a full post in a few days, once I’ve had time to get through the loads of pics I took – it’s incredible how many photos you can take on a trip like that. Meanwhile, here is a teaser – a beautiful Northern Gannet in flight alongside the boat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Northern Gannet during American Princess Cruises’ 12-hour Pelagic Birding Trip, 02\/10\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As for Sunday, although I was exhausted, I got out for a while in the morning. First thing, I got lucky\/unlucky. I joined Kyle Knapp in Warwick to see the ROSS’S GOOSE that he relocated first thing. I was lucky in that the bird stuck around in time for my arrival. I was unlucky because, just moments after my arrival, the Ross’s and all the Canada Geese it has been associating with picked up and flew, so I only got a very brief look at the bird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Snow Geese in the black dirt, 02\/11\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Later in the morning, I located a large flock of Snow Geese on Pierce Circle in the black dirt. At first I estimated approximately 2,000 birds, but the longer I stayed, I realized it was probably north of 4,000 individuals. I scanned the birds, looking for Ross’s, but I came up empty. It was tough because the birds kept lifting up. In the early afternoon, Ken McDermott, Linda Scrima, and Jeanne Cimorelli did in fact located a Ross’s, nice job by them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~SNGOs in the BDR, 02\/11\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~It’s really cool how many shapes the flock can take in flight – flocking birds, and flocking
Snow Geese in particular, are so fun to photograph and the images are usually pretty interesting. SNGOs in the black dirt, 02\/11\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Snow Geese cruising by. Pierce Circle, 02\/11\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The big news is that on Saturday I went on a 12 hour pelagic birding trip out of Brooklyn with American Princess Cruises. It was a really good trip, and I will publish a full post in a few days, once I’ve had time to get through the loads of pics I took – it’s … Continue reading “Pelagic Teaser & Sunday Snow Geese, 02\/11\/24”<\/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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3pv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13113","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=13113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13122,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13113\/revisions\/13122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}