{"id":14029,"date":"2025-02-09T19:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T00:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14029"},"modified":"2025-02-09T19:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T00:51:06","slug":"common-goldeneyes-02-08-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14029","title":{"rendered":"Common Goldeneyes, 02\/08\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had an enjoyable but mostly unremarkable weekend of birding; I hit the black dirt both mornings and the Newburgh Waterfront on Saturday afternoon. I added three new species to my Orange County year list: Brown Creeper, Hairy Woodpecker, and Red-breasted Merganser. Photos were tough to come by in general, but I did score with a trio of Common Goldeneyes at the Newburgh Waterfront. It was probably comical to watch, but I waited for all three birds to dive at the same time, and then I ran and jumped into some brush on the shoreline.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, 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https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-3-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-3-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-3-2048x1638.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-3-1200x960.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-4-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-4-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-4-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-4-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-4-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-4-2048x1280.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-4-1200x750.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-5-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-5-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-5-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-5-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-5-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-5-1200x960.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-5.jpg 2039w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/020825-COGO-6-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" 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I added three new species to my Orange County year list: Brown Creeper, Hairy Woodpecker, and Red-breasted Merganser. Photos were tough to come by in general, but I did score with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14029\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Common Goldeneyes, 02\/08\/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":[6,19,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3Eh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14029","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=14029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14038,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14029\/revisions\/14038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}