{"id":1622,"date":"2013-04-11T19:54:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T00:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2013-05-03T13:55:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T18:55:40","slug":"red-eyed-vireo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1622","title":{"rendered":"Red-eyed Vireo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early this morning the bright, insistent song of a Red-eyed Vireo drew me out onto the deck \u2013 <em>Here I am; where are you? Over here, up in the tree<\/em>. It\u2019s the first Red-eyed Vireo of the season here. The early morning was breezy, sunny and green \u2013 with leaves coming out everywhere now. The Vireo sang from a perch near the top of a tall sweet gum tree, among its new, fresh-green, star-shaped leaves. It sang and sang from one spot, not moving around as much as Red-eyed Vireos usually do. The song was clear, bright and fast-tempo \u2013 and I could just see the bird well enough to see its slender shape, plain olive-gray back, pale breast, white eyebrow, and black streak through the eye.<\/p>\n<p>A male Ruby-throated Hummingbird zipped by me and settled on the feeder, where it stayed for a long, deep sip. Although I just saw him for the first time yesterday, I think hummingbirds have probably been here for several days at least, maybe a couple of weeks. We\u2019re seeing them now because I just put up a feeder two days ago.It was another sunny, very warm day with only a few distant white clouds in a hazy blue sky. The suddenly warm weather, following a lot of rain last week, seems to be bringing out everything almost at once. The redbuds now are thick with pink blossoms, and this morning I noticed that our river birches are covered in small, shimmering, new-green leaves. Most water oaks and tulip poplars are fully green, and even pecan trees and white oaks now have catkins and the small beginnings of new leaves. A few dogwoods in the woods have begun to open into lacy white bloom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early this morning the bright, insistent song of a Red-eyed Vireo drew me out onto the deck \u2013 Here I am; where are you? Over here, up in the tree. It\u2019s the first Red-eyed Vireo of the season here. The early morning was breezy, sunny and green \u2013 with leaves coming out everywhere now. The [&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\/1622"}],"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=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}