{"id":6798,"date":"2017-03-04T19:13:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T00:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6798"},"modified":"2017-03-04T19:13:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T00:13:13","slug":"orange-county-waterfowl-030417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6798","title":{"rendered":"Orange County Waterfowl, 03\/04\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~A male Common Merganser in flight at Wickham Lake, 03\/04\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I decided to do my own Orange County waterfowl survey of sorts this afternoon. I visited nine different locations not too far from my home here in Goshen. First thing I will say is that it was COLD out there today. The temperatures weren’t so bad, in the mid-twenties, but wind made it very cold, bringing tears to my eyes all day. I think if it was a little bit more comfortable out I would have been a little bit more thorough; I felt like I certainly could have spent some more time at some of the locations. That being said, it was a fun way to spend the afternoon and I ended up with 14 species of waterfowl and over 950 individuals. I had a Northern Shoveler and a Pied-billed Grebe at Brown’s Pond and both birds were my first of the year in Orange County. Scroll down to see my results by location.<\/p>\n

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~Male Bufflehead at Wickham Lake, 03\/04\/17.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TOMAHAWK LAKE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wood Duck 5
\nCommon Merganser 122<\/p>\n

BROWN’S POND<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canada Goose 43
\nMute Swan 9
\nAmerican Black Duck 4
\nMallard 54
\nNorthern Shoveler 1
\nGreen-winged Teal 12
\nRing-necked Duck 23
\nHooded Merganser 2
\nPied-billed Grebe 1<\/p>\n

ORANGE & ROCKLAND LAKE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canada Goose 9
\nMallard 3<\/p>\n

ROUND LAKE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canada Goose 5
\nAmerican Black Duck 2
\nMallard 7
\nGreater Scaup 1
\nRing-necked Duck\u00a08
\nBufflehead 14
\nCommon Merganser 165<\/p>\n

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~Northern Shoveler at Brown’s Pond, 03\/04\/17.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WALTON LAKE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bufflehead 1
\nCommon Merganser\u00a07<\/p>\n

WICKHAM LAKE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canada Goose\u00a017
\nWood Duck 5
\nAmerican Black Duck\u00a028
\nMallard\u00a03
\nBufflehead\u00a07
\nCommon Merganser\u00a0275<\/p>\n

WARWICK TOWN HALL<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canada Goose 2
\nGadwall 33
\nMallard 6
\nRing-necked Duck 23
\nHooded Merganser 2<\/p>\n

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~A pair of Common Mergansers in flight, Wickham Lake 03\/04\/17.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

GLENMERE POND<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canada Goose 10
\nMute Swan 2
\nMallard 10
\nRing-necked Duck 6
\nHooded Merganser 2<\/p>\n

GLENMERE LAKE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canada Goose 5
\nRing-necked Duck 47
\nBufflehead 14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I decided to do my own Orange County waterfowl survey of sorts this afternoon. I visited nine different locations not too far from my home here in Goshen. First thing I will say is that it was COLD out there today. The temperatures weren’t so bad, in the mid-twenties, but wind made it very cold, … Continue reading “Orange County Waterfowl, 03\/04\/17”<\/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":[25,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-state","category-orangecounty","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1LE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6798","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=6798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6805,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6798\/revisions\/6805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}