{"id":3860,"date":"2015-01-19T20:40:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T01:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3860"},"modified":"2015-01-19T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T01:40:57","slug":"waterfowl-count-11815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3860","title":{"rendered":"Waterfowl Count, 1\/18\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3865\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3865\" style=\"width: 973px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MG_82592.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3865\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MG_82592.jpg\" alt=\"~\" width=\"973\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MG_82592.jpg 973w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MG_82592-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MG_82592-830x1024.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~A male Ring-necked Pheasant at Pierce Circle, 1\/18\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Karen Miller and I attempted to participate in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mearnsbirdclub.org\/Mearns_Bird_Club\/Welcome.html\">Mearns Bird Club <\/a>Waterfowl Count yesterday, but we were thwarted by the weather. We started out alright, covering a small part of the Black Dirt Region and counting nearly 3,000 Canada Geese, over two dozen Mallards, and 6 Common Mergansers. Then the rain began in earnest, and the\u00a0roads quickly became very icy and downright treacherous. At the first sign of icy conditions, we called it and headed home, and I&#8217;m glad we did. We both made it home safely, thank goodness. The highlight of the day was seeing a male Ring-necked Pheasant on Pierce Circle and getting some photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Miller and I attempted to participate in the Mearns Bird Club Waterfowl Count yesterday, but we were thwarted by the weather. We started out alright, covering a small part of the Black Dirt Region and counting nearly 3,000 Canada Geese, over two dozen Mallards, and 6 Common Mergansers. Then the rain began in earnest, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3860\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Waterfowl Count, 1\/18\/15&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3860","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-10g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860","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=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3867,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions\/3867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}