{"id":1052,"date":"2011-10-13T13:11:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T18:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2011-10-14T13:20:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T18:20:23","slug":"colorful-notes-from-somewhere-in-the-leaves-%e2%80%93-maybe-a-baltimore-oriole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1052","title":{"rendered":"Colorful Notes from Somewhere in the Leaves \u2013 Maybe a Baltimore Oriole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further down the road, several fluted, clear, mellow, rich whistles came from a bird hidden somewhere in the dense green foliage near the top of a tall old pecan tree. I\u2019m not sure, but think it was the voice of a Baltimore Oriole. I stood beneath the tree, listening for several minutes as it called, slow, short calls with long pauses in between, not a full song, but phrases, and I tried to find the singer, but couldn\u2019t ever see it.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to see how a bird so brilliantly colored as the flaming orange and black Baltimore Oriole could hide itself, even in thick leaves. I thought surely I should be able to catch a glimpse of orange \u2013 if that\u2019s what it was. But I couldn\u2019t. So I\u2019ll never know for sure. The alluring, musical voice sounded so familiar and so distinctive \u2013 almost as colorful as the bird\u2019s plumage \u2013 but I don\u2019t know this one well enough to be certain without seeing it. So it\u2019s another of those small but very common frustrations of birding \u2013 the glimpses, the broken phrases, the ones you don\u2019t quite see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further down the road, several fluted, clear, mellow, rich whistles came from a bird hidden somewhere in the dense green foliage near the top of a tall old pecan tree. I\u2019m not sure, but think it was the voice of a Baltimore Oriole. I stood beneath the tree, listening for several minutes as it called, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}