{"id":13893,"date":"2024-12-14T17:21:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T22:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13893"},"modified":"2024-12-14T17:21:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T22:21:47","slug":"ulster-county-greater-white-fronted-geese-12-14-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13893","title":{"rendered":"Ulster County Greater White-fronted Geese, 12\/14\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I birded all morning and into the early afternoon today. I started at Highland Lakes State Park, just after sunrise. I was following up on a report of a Ruffed Grouse by Joyce DePew. Unfortunately, and unsurprisingly, I did not have any luck with the grouse. Afterwards, I headed over to the Newburgh Waterfront to see if I could find any good birds to contribute to the Eastern Orange County Christmas Bird Count. I could not, lol, I just had the usuals. I ran into birding bud Bruce Nott, and he’d found a couple of good birds: Horned Grebe and Yellow Warbler. I tried for both but did not have any luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My luck changed for the better in the early afternoon, when I went to Popp Park in Wallkill, to try for the two Greater White-fronted Geese that Jeanne Cimorelli found there yesterday. I was able to easily relocate the birds just after my arrival. They were tucked in tight for a good while, but finally they made a move and I was able to get some decent shots. It was the highlight of my day to see these two beauties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~One of two Greater White-fronted Geese on the Wallkill River at Popp Park in Ulster County, 12\/14\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Here they are together; Greater White-fronted Geese at Popp Park, 12\/14\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~This dude did a flyby and landed just across the way. Great Blue Heron at Popp Park, 12\/14\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I birded all morning and into the early afternoon today. I started at Highland Lakes State Park, just after sunrise. I was following up on a report of a Ruffed Grouse by Joyce DePew. Unfortunately, and unsurprisingly, I did not have any luck with the grouse. Afterwards, I headed over to the Newburgh Waterfront to … Continue reading “Ulster County Greater White-fronted Geese, 12\/14\/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_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":[15,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rarities","category-ulster-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3C5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13893","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=13893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13898,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13893\/revisions\/13898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}