{"id":2904,"date":"2014-06-24T22:04:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T02:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2014-06-24T22:49:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T02:49:22","slug":"black-bellied-whistling-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=2904","title":{"rendered":"BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCKS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2905\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2905\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0739.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2905\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0739-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"Six Black-bellied Whistling Ducks at Morningside Park in Sullivan County, 6\/24\/14. \" width=\"584\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0739-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0739-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0739-420x300.jpg 420w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0739.jpg 1462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Six Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks at Morningside Park in Sullivan County, 6\/24\/14. I know it looks like only five, but there is one duck hidden behind the others.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today a DEC worker located six <strong>BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCKS<\/strong> at Morningside Park in Sullivan County and apparently put the word out. I received a call from Ken McDermott in the early afternoon and I knew that I was going to miss my Tuesday afternoon golf league. According to Ken, this is the first sighting on record of these birds in Sullivan County. The birds were originally located on shore by the pavilion, but picked up and relocated out into the lake by the time I had arrived. The view was not too distant, but did not allow for great photos. To see good, close-ups of the birds, go to John Haas&#8217; blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/bashakillbirder.wordpress.com\/#!\/cover\">The Bashakill Birder.<\/a>\u00a0It was a really great afternoon where I got to see a lot of birders I know and we all got great looks at these beautiful rarities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2906\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2906\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0893.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2906\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0893-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"A better look at all six Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks. Morningside Park 6\/24\/14. \" width=\"584\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0893-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0893-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0893-420x300.jpg 420w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0893.jpg 1473w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A better look at all six Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks. Morningside Park 6\/24\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today a DEC worker located six BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCKS at Morningside Park in Sullivan County and apparently put the word out. I received a call from Ken McDermott in the early afternoon and I knew that I was going to miss my Tuesday afternoon golf league. According to Ken, this is the first sighting on record &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=2904\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCKS!&#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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rarities","category-sullivancounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-KQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904","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=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2911,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions\/2911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}