{"id":938,"date":"2014-12-08T18:58:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T02:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/?p=938"},"modified":"2014-12-09T15:04:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T23:04:15","slug":"goldeneye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/blog\/goldeneye\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldeneye"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goldeneye ducks. Striking, beautiful black and white ducks that migrate into our waters from the Boreal forests of the North. We enjoy two species of them in the West– the Common or American and the Barrow’s Goldeneye.\u00a0 Common’s are plentiful in the rivers, lakes and tidewaters of our state with wintering populations in the tens of thousands– Barrow’s are a special Western bird\u00a0— far\u00a0less plentiful than the Common’s\u00a0with 8-10,000 of them wintering on our Coastal waters\u00a0here in Washington. We start to see both species of Goldeneye after Halloween, mostly juvenile birds and hens arriving first– then as the\u00a0breeding areas get frozen up North a better push of birds start showing up November thru the\u00a0late season. The older drakes arrive in our wintering areas already sporting their best plumage. \"Cliff<\/a> We just wrapped up a few days hunting with repeat clients from Mississippi that\u00a0wanted to target both species on their hunts with us. Cliff had never shot a mature Goldeneye drake before last season and was lucky enough to take\u00a0a hybrid Common X Barrow’s last December as his first– what luck !<\/p>\n

\"Barrow's<\/a><\/p>\n

Barrow’s X Common hybrid<\/p>\n

Good hunts were in store for them again this season as both Cliff and Will took some fine drakes of both species over the past few days. They will look great on the walls of both their trophy rooms.\u00a0 It’s shaping up to be another fantastic Goldeneye season\u00a0around here !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goldeneye ducks. Striking, beautiful black and white ducks that migrate into our waters from the Boreal forests of the North. We enjoy two species of them in the West– the Common or American and the Barrow’s Goldeneye.\u00a0 Common’s are plentiful … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}