{"id":6883,"date":"2017-03-27T19:43:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T23:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6883"},"modified":"2017-03-27T19:43:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T23:43:55","slug":"orange-county-waterfowl-fallout-032717","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6883","title":{"rendered":"Orange County Waterfowl Fallout, 03\/27\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~I spotted this Lesser Scaup in a small pond as I neared Wickham Lake – it was a small taste of what was to come! LESC in Warwick, 03\/27\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last night’s rain must have had some good timing – it grounded a fair amount of waterfowl in Orange County. My first indication that it was going to be a good day was when I received a text around noon from Bruce Nott. He had a RED-THROATED LOON<\/strong> at Orange Lake. Which was followed shortly afterwards with a text that he had 2 LONG-TAILED DUCKS<\/strong> and a Common Loon at Washington Lake. Then, a half hour before quitting time I got word from Rob Stone that he had a slew of birds at Wickham Lake. I joined Bruce Nott, Kathy Ashman, and Linda Scrima at the lake to enjoy this waterfowl bonanza. Including the Canada Geese I had as I drove in, we had 17 (!) species of waterfowl!<\/p>\n

Canada Goose 45
\nWood Duck 1
\nGadwall 3
\nAmerican Wigeon 10
\nMallard 6
\nNorthern Pintail 20
\nGreen-winged Teal 2
\nREDHEAD<\/strong> 17
\nRing-necked Duck 7
\nGREATER SCAUP<\/strong>\u00a09
\nLESSER SCAUP <\/strong>75
\nBufflehead 12
\nHooded Merganser 4
\nCommon Merganser 3
\nRuddy Duck 6
\nPied-billed Grebe 2
\nHORNED GREBE <\/strong>3<\/p>\n

How’s that for a waterfowl list?!? I was particularly happy\u00a0to see\u00a0Redheads in Orange County for the first time ever. This\u00a0is the sort of day, as a birder, that I get really jazzed\u00a0about, and Bruce, Kathy, and Linda all seemed\u00a0equally excited about it. Another good bird we had while were there was a single BONAPARTE’S GULL<\/strong>, always a favorite of mine. The only downside was that, of course, the birds were quite distant. Scope views were pretty amazing but photos were nearly impossible. Huge thanks to Rob and Bruce, great birding for sure!<\/p>\n

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~Can you spot the Bonaparte’s Gull? A nice assortment of waterfowl at Wickham Lake, 03\/27\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night’s rain must have had some good timing – it grounded a fair amount of waterfowl in Orange County. My first indication that it was going to be a good day was when I received a text around noon from Bruce Nott. He had a RED-THROATED LOON at Orange Lake. Which was followed shortly … Continue reading “Orange County Waterfowl Fallout, 03\/27\/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":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1N1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883","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=6883"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6892,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883\/revisions\/6892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}