{"id":2070,"date":"2016-03-08T21:58:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T21:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2016-03-08T22:01:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T22:01:53","slug":"st-lawrence-river-snow-geese-3800-northern-pintail-165","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=2070","title":{"rendered":"St. Lawrence River: Snow Geese (3800) Northern Pintail (165)&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>Hi there,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Today, 8 March 2016, I was en route from Ottawa to bird Prince Edward Co. for the day but was delayed at Brockville &#8212; the 401 was a stand still. Over a span of 50 min, while basically parked on the highway, I enjoyed watching a large influx of geese heading SE<!--more--> over the highway. I tallied roughly 4000 Canada Geese and 450 Snow Geese flying SE, about 5 km east of Brockville. When I finally made it to Brockville, I decided that I would head to the lookout at Blockhouse Island and do a river watch. From 1100 &#8211; 1300 h I tallied: 3800 Snow Geese, 3000 Canada Geese, 165 Northern Pintail and 54 Common Merganser. All of the above waterfowl were heading E along the river, &#8216;pinched&#8217; in to a relatively narrow (300 m wide approx) channel of open water. A wonderful spectacle!<\/p>\n<p><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\">Full eBird checklist here: <a class=\"\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"http:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Febird.org%2Febird%2Fcanada%2Fview%2Fchecklist%3FsubID%3DS28049028&amp;h=4AQHC5SmH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/canada\/view\/checklist?subID=S28049028<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Directions to Blockhouse Island: From the 401, take exit 696 and continue south on Stewart Blvd (road 29) to King Street W (road 2). Head east on King Street W to Market Street W then south on Market Street. Market Street become Blockhouse Island Rd. once past Water Street W.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Good birding,<\/div>\n<div>Jon<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there, Today, 8 March 2016, I was en route from Ottawa to bird Prince Edward Co. for the day but was delayed at Brockville &#8212; the 401 was a stand still. Over a span of 50 min, while basically parked on the highway, I enjoyed watching a large influx of geese heading SE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}