{"id":1191,"date":"2012-03-20T14:24:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T19:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2012-04-26T14:27:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T19:27:07","slug":"dawn-songs-on-the-spring-equinox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1191","title":{"rendered":"Dawn Songs on the Spring Equinox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 7:00 this morning, about forty minutes before sunrise, a full chorus of birdsong was well underway. I celebrated the Equinox in a very lazy way \u2013 by lying in bed and sleepily listening through open windows, one of the most luxurious and pleasant ways to start a day. Many birds were singing, among them \u2013 Eastern Phoebe, Carolina Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, Northern Cardinal, Carolina Wren, Eastern Towhee \u2013 singing an especially pretty and rather delicate <em>Drink-your-tee<\/em> and also <em>Drink-tee<\/em> \u2013 Eastern Bluebird, Pine Warbler and a Chipping Sparrow singing its dawn song \u2013 short bursts of light trills.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the birds singing were year-round residents here, but among them were at least two winter residents, too \u2013 the quick, sharp, complex song of a Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and the slow plaintive whistles of a White-throated Sparrow. A Yellow-bellied Sapsucker mewed several times as it seemed to move from tree to tree, very close to the house.<\/p>\n<p>A Louisiana Waterthrush sang from down in the woods around the creek \u2013 the only returning summer songbird in the mix.<\/p>\n<p>The dominant singers, however, were <em>two<\/em> Brown Thrashers \u2013 one singing in our next-door neighbor\u2019s yard, and the other, I think, sang from the top of a tall, slender river birch on the far side of our front yard, where I saw it still singing later in the morning. By 7:30, the full flush of birdsong had faded, though singing continued in a more scattered way. Ten minutes later, I was out on the back deck in time to see the sun rise \u2013 a rouge-red, shimmering ball, with no clouds around, drifting up into a clear blue sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 7:00 this morning, about forty minutes before sunrise, a full chorus of birdsong was well underway. I celebrated the Equinox in a very lazy way \u2013 by lying in bed and sleepily listening through open windows, one of the most luxurious and pleasant ways to start a day. Many birds were singing, among them [&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\/1191"}],"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=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}