{"id":13975,"date":"2025-01-04T17:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T22:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13975"},"modified":"2025-01-04T17:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T22:30:06","slug":"orange-county-eurasian-wigeon-01-04-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13975","title":{"rendered":"Orange County Eurasian Wigeon, 01\/04\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On New Year&#8217;s Day, Diane Bliss found a EURASIAN WIGEON in the small ponds across from Warwick Town Hall. The bird was not relocated on the 2nd, but then it resurfaced on the 3rd. I couldn&#8217;t run for it because I was working, so I was hoping it would hang in there for me until today. Which it did. Huge thanks to Kyle Knapp, who was on the scene before sunrise, and not only did he let me know the bird was there, he stuck around to make sure I got it. The bird is a beautiful drake and was an Orange County lifer for me, nudging my total number of birds in the county to 278. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010425-EUWI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010425-EUWI-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010425-EUWI-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010425-EUWI-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010425-EUWI-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010425-EUWI-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010425-EUWI-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010425-EUWI.jpg 1535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Wow! EURASIAN WIGEON in Warwick, NY 01\/04\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010425-RTHA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010425-RTHA-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010425-RTHA-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010425-RTHA-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010425-RTHA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010425-RTHA-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010425-RTHA-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010425-RTHA-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010425-RTHA-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~I finally ran into the Warwick leucistic  Red-tailed Hawk after not seeing the bird for a good while (maybe a year or so?).~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On New Year&#8217;s Day, Diane Bliss found a EURASIAN WIGEON in the small ponds across from Warwick Town Hall. The bird was not relocated on the 2nd, but then it resurfaced on the 3rd. I couldn&#8217;t run for it because I was working, so I was hoping it would hang in there for me until &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13975\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Orange County Eurasian Wigeon, 01\/04\/25&#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":[6,15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-rarities","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3Dp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13975","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=13975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13979,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13975\/revisions\/13979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}