{"id":854,"date":"2010-01-15T09:20:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T17:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/?p=854"},"modified":"2010-01-15T09:20:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T17:20:47","slug":"snow-geese-on-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/snow-geese-on-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Geese on Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_855\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/goose-snow-landing1-9-10f-blog.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-855\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-855\" title=\"goose-snow-landing1-9-10f-blog\" src=\"http:\/\/backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/goose-snow-landing1-9-10f-blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow Geese, Canada Geese<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What is a frozen lake good for? Well, when the record-setting cold came through this month (low of 6; high of 18) for several days, <a href=\"http:\/\/okc-audubon.org\/blog\/?cat=22\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Hefner<\/a> froze almost completely.\u00a0 The lake is my favorite, close to home birding spot and I&#8217;m there at least 5 days a week looking for birds to photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Frigid temps don&#8217;t make for easy birding but a frozen lake?!\u00a0 How was I going to find the loons and ducks?\u00a0 Wow! What a wonderful surprise when I found that Canada Geese seem to really like standing on a frozen lake. And while I was watching and photographing a flock of &gt;400 Canadas, a magnificent flock of Snow Geese dropped down to join them!\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m still going through the other photos I took to see if I can ID any Ross&#8217;s Geese in the flock.<\/p>\n<p>I grabbed this pic while they were still landing. Such a beautiful sight &#8212; plus the sound of all the geese was like mother nature&#8217;s chorus.\u00a0 Seriously!<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t often that I get to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/gallery\/goose-snow.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Snow Geese<\/a> so my joy was magnified by their numbers.\u00a0 And I got to see all of this because the lake was frozen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"caption-attachment-855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow Geese, Canada Geese<\/p>\n<p>What is a frozen lake good for? Well, when the record-setting cold came through this month (low of 6; high of 18) for several days, Lake Hefner froze almost completely. The lake is my favorite, close to home birding spot and I&#8217;m there at least 5 days a week [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13,24,28,33,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}