{"id":1595,"date":"2013-03-01T21:43:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T02:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2013-04-13T13:45:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T18:45:32","slug":"the-song-of-a-tufted-titmouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1595","title":{"rendered":"The Song of a Tufted Titmouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In another, more wooded part of the neighborhood, a Tufted Titmouse sang this morning. Many Titmice have been singing for a month or so now, and their whistled <em>peter-peter<\/em> songs are so familiar and common that I\u2019m guilty of usually hearing them more as background sound, and not paying much attention to them. A small, silver-gray bird with bright black eyes and perky crest, white breast, and peach-colored patches under its wings, a Tufted Titmouse is among the most common birds around our yard and woods year-round, very often coming to the feeders and flocking with Carolina Chickadees, Downy Woodpeckers and Brown-headed Nuthatches. Its raspy <em>day-day-day<\/em> alarm calls are frequently heard.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe because this one was so close, in a tree by the side of the road, its song sounded particularly clear and pure, with a more complex quality in the notes than I\u2019ve ever noticed before. Its simple, whistled <em>peter-peter-peter<\/em> suddenly sounded exotic. Each note carried a hint of a stringed sound, with a slightly varied quality, lyrical and expressive. I don\u2019t think this particular song was unusual for a Titmouse \u2013 it\u2019s just that I had never really stopped and listened carefully to one sing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another, more wooded part of the neighborhood, a Tufted Titmouse sang this morning. Many Titmice have been singing for a month or so now, and their whistled peter-peter songs are so familiar and common that I\u2019m guilty of usually hearing them more as background sound, and not paying much attention to them. A small, [&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\/1595"}],"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=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}