{"id":2138,"date":"2016-03-15T18:40:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T18:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2016-03-15T18:42:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T18:42:16","slug":"richardsons-cackling-geese-in-eastern-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=2138","title":{"rendered":"Richardson&#8217;s Cackling Geese in eastern Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent start to what is now my 6th season (2013 fall; 2014 &amp; fall ; 2015 spring &amp; fall; 2016 spring) getting to know Richardson&#8217;s (<em>hutchinsii<\/em>) Cackling Geese. I tallied my 12, 13, 14 and 15th individual of the season today just south of Richmond, Ont.<!--more--> Heading to Wolfe Island on Thursday <em>and <\/em>Saturday and would love to tally a 5 (or 6) goose species day while birding there<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/011-1024x550.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2139\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2139\" src=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/011-1024x550-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"011 (1024x550)\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/011-1024x550-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/011-1024x550-768x413.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/011-1024x550.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo<\/strong>: Overcast conditions provide an excellent opportunity to study the paler, more scaly (broad pale terminal fringing) upperparts seen on Richardson&#8217;s here in southern and eastern Ontario. Mark Gawn of Ottawa first alerted me to this average (not an absolute) characteristic of these geese back in the fall of 2012. I photographed this <em>hutchinsii <\/em>in with Canada Geese along Century Road W. 15 March 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Good birding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent start to what is now my 6th season (2013 fall; 2014 &amp; fall ; 2015 spring &amp; fall; 2016 spring) getting to know Richardson&#8217;s (hutchinsii) Cackling Geese. I tallied my 12, 13, 14 and 15th individual of the season today just south of Richmond, Ont.<\/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-2138","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\/2138","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=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}