{"id":14087,"date":"2025-03-30T17:21:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T21:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14087"},"modified":"2025-03-30T17:21:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T21:21:53","slug":"waterfowl-weekend-03-30-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14087","title":{"rendered":"Waterfowl Weekend, 03\/30\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I enjoyed an excellent weekend of birding, with plenty of good waterfowl. The highlight was Wickham Lake this morning; Kyle Knapp and I made two visits to the lake, and we enjoyed some really excellent birds. Highlights included: (2) WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, (7) LONG-TAILED DUCKS, (3) RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS, and (2) HORNED GREBES. Along with the more expected species, we had a total of (15) species of waterfowl. We also had (3) species of gull, Ring-billed, American Herring, and my first BONAPARTE’S GULLS of year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~It always seems to be the case with these exciting sea ducks – always distant and in poor light~ (7) Long-tailed Ducks on the move at Wickham Lake, 03\/30\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Horned Grebe at Wickham Lake, 03\/30\/25. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Saturday was a little less exciting, with only new species of watefowl for me; a Common Loon at Walton Lake (the bird continued into Sunday morning as well). The bird was way too distant both days for photos, but the nicer weather on Saturday morning did allow me to get some decent shots of some other waterfowl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Northern Pintail at the Liberty Loop, 03\/29\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Pied-billed Grebe at Wickham Lake on Saturday morning, 03\/29\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Merlin at Wickham Lake 03\/29\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Fish Crow at Wickham Lake, 03\/23\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~This one is from last weekend, when Eastern Phoebes moved back into our area. This one was at Silver Mine Lake, 03\/22\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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I enjoyed an excellent weekend of birding, with plenty of good waterfowl. The highlight was Wickham Lake this morning; Kyle Knapp and I made two visits to the lake, and we enjoyed some really excellent birds. Highlights included: (2) WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, (7) LONG-TAILED DUCKS, (3) RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS, and (2) HORNED GREBES. Along with the more … Continue reading “Waterfowl Weekend, 03\/30\/25”<\/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":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3Fd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14087","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=14087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14098,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14087\/revisions\/14098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}