{"id":13995,"date":"2025-01-19T16:59:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T21:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13995"},"modified":"2025-01-19T16:59:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T21:59:30","slug":"winter-waterfowl-count-01-18-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13995","title":{"rendered":"Winter Waterfowl Count, 01\/18\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Saturday, Linda Scrima and I took part in the Mearns Bird Club\u2019s Orange County Winter Waterfowl Count. For the seventh straight year, we covered the Black Dirt Region for the survey. Much of the water in the area was frozen over, but in spite of that, I think we managed to tally some decent numbers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Canada Goose: 4,716<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cackling Goose: 1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Snow Goose: 3<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mallard: 22<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>American Black Duck: 4<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Green-winged Teal: 1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ring-necked Duck<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hooded Merganser: 2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Common Merganser: 16<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/011925-AMKE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/011925-AMKE-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/011925-AMKE-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/011925-AMKE-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/011925-AMKE-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/011925-AMKE-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/011925-AMKE-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/011925-AMKE-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/011925-AMKE-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~American Kestrel in the Black Dirt Region, 01\/19\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I did some additional birding this weekend, mostly trying to catch up with the GLAUCOUS GULL that Bruce Nott found last weekend. I tried for that bird both days, but unfortunately came up empty. I also birded the black dirt first thing this morning; I was rewarded by an extremely confiding American Kestrel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/011925-AMKE-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/011925-AMKE-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/011925-AMKE-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/011925-AMKE-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/011925-AMKE-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/011925-AMKE-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/011925-AMKE-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/011925-AMKE-2-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/011925-AMKE-2-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~One more shot of the Am. Kestrel in the black dirt this morning, 01\/19\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, Linda Scrima and I took part in the Mearns Bird Club\u2019s Orange County Winter Waterfowl Count. For the seventh straight year, we covered the Black Dirt Region for the survey. Much of the water in the area was frozen over, but in spite of that, I think we managed to tally some decent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13995\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Winter Waterfowl Count, 01\/18\/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_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":[23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-orangecounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3DJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995","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=13995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13998,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995\/revisions\/13998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}