{"id":2491,"date":"2014-03-19T19:55:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T23:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2014-03-19T19:55:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T23:55:48","slug":"31914-snow-geese-land-in-orange-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=2491","title":{"rendered":"3\/19\/14 &#8211; Snow Geese Land in Orange County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0976.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2492\" alt=\"IMG_0976\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0976.jpg\" width=\"5422\" height=\"2393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0976.jpg 5422w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0976-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0976-1024x451.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0976-500x220.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>Just before noon today, Rob Stone called to let me know he had approximately 2000 Snow Geese at the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge, just across the road from the Liberty Loop. By the time I got out of work after 3:00, the birds had moved on. I got in touch with Curt McDermott and John Haas who were hot on the trail of the birds. They had relocated the flock (which had grown to 8,000 birds), but the birds lifted up once again. The flock had split into two groups and I followed Curt and John in my car as we (they!) relocated the larger of the two groups out in the Black Dirt Region. The three of us agreed that there were perhaps 5,000 Snow Geese in the group. We spent probably over two hours looking for a Ross&#8217;s Goose among them without success. With any luck the birds will stick around long enough and someone will find a Ross&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0955.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2493\" alt=\"IMG_0955\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0955.jpg\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0955.jpg 5472w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0955-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0955-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0955-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before noon today, Rob Stone called to let me know he had approximately 2000 Snow Geese at the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge, just across the road from the Liberty Loop. By the time I got out of work after 3:00, the birds had moved on. I got in touch with Curt McDermott and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=2491\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;3\/19\/14 &#8211; Snow Geese Land in Orange County&#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":false,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-Eb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","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=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2495,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}