{"id":1639,"date":"2013-04-18T19:05:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T00:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2013-05-03T14:06:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T19:06:59","slug":"black-and-white-warbler-and-white-eyed-vireo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"Black-and-white Warbler and White-eyed Vireo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning \u2013 a cloudy, breezy, and very warm day \u2013 held the songs of two birds I usually hear much earlier in the spring or even late winter. A Black-and-white Warbler sang in a tangled area of shrubs and trees near the entrance to our subdivision \u2013 not an area where I would usually expect to find one. But its high, \u201csqueaky-wheel\u201d song was clear and sweet. In most years, Black-and-white Warblers are one of the first migrant birds to return or pass through the woods here, and usually I can count on hearing and seeing several \u2013 but this is the first and only one I\u2019ve heard so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>And in the old field near the highway, a White-eyed Vireo sang a crisp, percussive <em>chick-a-perioo-chick!<\/em> from somewhere hidden in a dense privet thicket. The traffic sounds from the highway were loud, and I could find few other birds in the field \u2013 an Eastern Towhee, Northern Mockingbird, Northern Cardinal, one Ruby-crowned Kinglet and a Brown Thrasher singing in a chinaberry tree. A White-throated Sparrow whistled a sweet, long, full song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning \u2013 a cloudy, breezy, and very warm day \u2013 held the songs of two birds I usually hear much earlier in the spring or even late winter. A Black-and-white Warbler sang in a tangled area of shrubs and trees near the entrance to our subdivision \u2013 not an area where I would usually [&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\/1639"}],"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=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}