{"id":1632,"date":"2013-04-16T23:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2013-05-03T14:01:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T19:01:58","slug":"great-crested-flycatcher-and-northern-parula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1632","title":{"rendered":"Great Crested Flycatcher and Northern Parula"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a clear, sunny, very warm morning, a strong whreeep<\/em> and a guttural brrrrt<\/em> announced the return of a Great Crested Fycatcher to the trees around our house. I couldn\u2019t see this one, but on a walk through the neighborhood later in the morning, heard at least three other Great Crested Flycatchers, and found one perched out in full view on a branch of a pecan tree. It stayed in view for several minutes, calling brrrrt<\/em> repeatedly, and moving around, as if it were a model on a runway, showing off all sides and angles \u2013 its handsome, big, gray crested head; the touch of cinnamon in the wings, and glowing lemon-yellow belly. It flared its long cinnamon tail, catching the sunlight in the feathers like stained glass.<\/p>\n

In the trees between our yard and a neighbor\u2019s, a Northern Parula sang \u2013 another first of the season migrant. It was singing and singing its buzzy song, a rising trill that trips over and down sharply at the end, somewhere high up among the leaves of water oaks and white oaks, and I never did succeed in seeing it \u2013 or distinguishing it from the many other birds in the same trees. There were dozens of Cedar Waxwings \u2013 maybe a hundred or more \u2013 and many Yellow-rumped Warblers, all moving around frequently, the Waxwings mewing and the Yellow-rumped Warblers singing.<\/p>\n

I was looking for a very small, roundish bird with a yellow throat and breast, green back, blue-gray head, face and wings with two white wingbars, and a black and coral band across the chest. It stayed well hidden in the leaves, but its song was summery and good to hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a clear, sunny, very warm morning, a strong whreeep and a guttural brrrrt announced the return of a Great Crested Fycatcher to the trees around our house. I couldn\u2019t see this one, but on a walk through the neighborhood later in the morning, heard at least three other Great Crested Flycatchers, and found one […]<\/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\/1632"}],"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=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions\/1634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}