{"id":1659,"date":"2013-04-30T20:46:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T01:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2013-05-09T13:55:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T18:55:57","slug":"hidden-in-the-new-green-leaves-%e2%80%93-black-throated-blue-warbler-female-scarlet-tanager-and-northern-parula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1659","title":{"rendered":"Hidden in the New Green Leaves \u2013 Black-throated Blue Warbler, Female Scarlet Tanager, and Northern Parula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning a Black-throated Blue Warbler near the edge of the woods was close enough to see. It sang its buzzy <em>beer-beer-beer-BEE <\/em>as it moved through a tangle of wet green leaves in the undergrowth. First I saw its dark-blue back and the white patch in the wing, then it turned toward me, showing the black throat and snow-white belly \u2013 and it parted its bill and sang again \u2013 a beautiful view.<\/p>\n<p>This last day of April has been a perfect April day, beginning foggy and cool, and slowly clearing. The pretty, jingling songs of Yellow-rumped Warblers still fill the trees, and I could also hear a Red-eyed Vireo, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Eastern Phoebe, Brown Thrasher, Carolina Wren, Tufted Titmouse, Brown-headed Nuthatch, Great Crested Flycatcher, Downy Woodpecker, Red-bellied Woodpecker, and the mews of dozens of Cedar Waxwings. Three Chimney Swifts flew below the murky clouds, twittering.<\/p>\n<p>I was checking out almost every small bird \u2013 most were Yellow-rumped Warblers \u2013 when one turned out to be a female Scarlet Tanager, olive-yellow with almost-black wings, eating a large fat green caterpillar.<\/p>\n<p>A Northern Parula sang in the same area of trees, but was very hard to find among all the Yellow-rumped Warblers. Finally, I did succeed in catching just a very brief glimpse of its small, round shape with blue-gray head, deep-yellow throat and chest, white belly, and a fleeting impression of a dark coral band across the breast \u2013 and then it flew again. It was too high and moving too quickly among the leaves to see all the field marks \u2013 the green back, white wing bars and white crescents around the eyes. But even a shadowy glimpse like this made it feel closer and more real.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, the radiant red and black colors of a male Scarlet Tanager in a pecan tree stood out clearly. It sang, and gave its <em>chick-brrr<\/em> calls around our yard for most of the day. I am delighted to have it staying around, and also kind of amazed, it\u2019s like having a celebrity drop by and stay a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning a Black-throated Blue Warbler near the edge of the woods was close enough to see. It sang its buzzy beer-beer-beer-BEE as it moved through a tangle of wet green leaves in the undergrowth. First I saw its dark-blue back and the white patch in the wing, then it turned toward me, showing 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\/1659"}],"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=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}