{"id":6554,"date":"2016-12-03T14:42:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T19:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6554"},"modified":"2016-12-03T14:42:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T19:42:07","slug":"oc-pink-footed-goose-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6554","title":{"rendered":"OC PINK-FOOTED GOOSE – YES!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~Oh my! PINK-FOOTED GOOSE at Turtle Bay 12\/3\/16.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I woke up this morning on a mission: To relocate the PINK-FOOTED GOOSE<\/strong> that Bruce Nott had found\u00a0the day before. I met Linda Scrima out at the Camel Farm just after sunrise,\u00a0and we were joined shortly afterwards by Walter Eberz. It was very cold and windy, but the three of us\u00a0sorted through approximately 1200 Canada Geese without any luck. We decided to divide and conquer and I headed over to Turtle Bay, where I found a group of approximately 800 Canada Geese out in a field. I quickly found a Cackling Goose, and then not long after that I got on a bird that looked good\u2026 Yes, it was the PINK-FOOTED GOOSE<\/strong>! I put the word out and both Linda and Walter joined\u00a0me and\u00a0we\u00a0enjoyed the bird for nearly an hour before all the birds\u00a0picked up, circled overhead, and then headed north. What a bird, not only is the PFGO a genuine rarity, it is also just a beautiful goose – wonderfully proportioned and I just love the wrinkles in the bird\u2019s neck. The bird was a lifer for Walter and it was my 214th<\/strong> bird in Orange County this year. Also of note, we located at least 2 Cackling Geese and a single Snow Goose. Super exciting birding!<\/p>\n

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~The PFGO feeding in the field off of Turtle Bay, 12\/3\/16. It was interesting looking at my photos of the bird because, although not seen in this photo, the bird twists its head around while feeding in the grass, nearly 180 degrees.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~I’m including this shot of one of the Cackling Geese because I actually managed to get a catchlight on the eye. The photo below better illustrates the birds small bill. Turtle Bay, 12\/3\/16.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Cackling Goose, looking tiny next the Canada Geese. Turtle Bay 12\/3\/16.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~A stop at Wisner Road afterwards produced 3 White-crowned Sparrows, 12\/3\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I woke up this morning on a mission: To relocate the PINK-FOOTED GOOSE that Bruce Nott had found\u00a0the day before. I met Linda Scrima out at the Camel Farm just after sunrise,\u00a0and we were joined shortly afterwards by Walter Eberz. It was very cold and windy, but the three of us\u00a0sorted through approximately 1200 Canada … Continue reading “OC PINK-FOOTED GOOSE – YES!!!”<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,6,15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-orangecounty","category-rarities","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1HI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554","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=6554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6561,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554\/revisions\/6561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}