{"id":7986,"date":"2018-03-30T20:23:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T00:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=7986"},"modified":"2018-03-30T20:23:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T00:23:07","slug":"great-day-in-orange-county-03-30-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=7986","title":{"rendered":"Great Day in Orange County, 03\/30\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~This is a beautiful goose – Blue Morph Snow Goose in flight in the Black Dirt Region, 03\/30\/18.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There was an awful lot of birding action in Orange County today. I was at work, but my phone was blowing up with reports: Kathy Ashman had 8 HORNED GREBES, a Red-breasted Merganser, and a Pine Warbler at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary. Bill Fiero had a Wilson’s Snipe and 3 Eastern Phoebes at Stewart Forest, and then Kathy had 7 more Horned Grebes, 3 Greater Scaup, and an 80 Snow Geese fly-over at Glenmere Lake. Ken McDermott had Ruddy Ducks, 7 LONG-TAILED DUCKS, and 2 Horned Grebes at Orange Lake. In the black dirt, Maria Loukeris reported 4 Eastern Meadowlarks and 200+ Snow Geese. Rob Stone had 6 Long-tailed Ducks at Wickham Lake. Phew! That’s a lot of good birds!<\/p>\n

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~Snow Geese taking off in the black dirt, 03\/30\/18.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Luckily, I got out of work a little bit early, so I was able to run for some birds. And, maybe even luckier still, ALL the birds I ran for stuck for me! I went to Wickham Lake first and got the 6 Long-tailed Ducks as well as a Red-breasted Merganser and a Ruddy Duck. At Glenmere Lake I relocated the Horned Grebes, the Greater Scaup, and also had a single Ruddy Duck there. At the pond near Glenmere, I made a quick stop and had my first Northern Shoveler of the year in Orange County. From there I went to the black dirt and did well with Snow Geese (200++) and also managed to relocate 2 of the Eastern Meadowlarks. And finally, my last stop was at 6 1\/2 Station Road where the Horned Grebes were kind enough to stick around and were close enough for some documentary photos. Not a bad haul for a work day! Excellent birding, thanks so much to everyone that reported!<\/p>\n

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~Five of the 8 Horned Grebes at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 03\/30\/18.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Snow Geese in the black dirt earlier this week, 03\/27\/18.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Also earlier this week – Wood Duck in the black dirt, 03\/27\/18.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Red-shouldered Hawk at Glenmere Lake, 03\/27\/18.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~One last shot of the Snow Geese in the dying light. Black Dirt Region, 03\/30\/18.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was an awful lot of birding action in Orange County today. I was at work, but my phone was blowing up with reports: Kathy Ashman had 8 HORNED GREBES, a Red-breasted Merganser, and a Pine Warbler at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary. Bill Fiero had a Wilson’s Snipe and 3 Eastern Phoebes at Stewart … Continue reading “Great Day in Orange County, 03\/30\/18”<\/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":[11,23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-612sanct","category-black-dirt","category-orangecounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-24O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986","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=7986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7997,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions\/7997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}