In another part of the neighborhood, a colorful Western Palm Warbler was feeding along the roadside, gleaning insects from the grasses and weeds, with very small, pale-purple flowers in bloom all around it. This was a much closer and better view of a Palm Warbler than when I saw two in a tree a few days ago. This one was close and vivid \u2013 a small, slender bird with red-brown crown, dark streak through the eye, bright yellow throat and bright yellow under the tail, a brownish back and streaks on the sides of a pale breast. It continuously, quickly pumped its tail as it foraged, and stayed on the ground for several minutes, before flying up into a low branch of a nearby tree.<\/p>\n
Many other birds were active in this burst of sunshine and blue sky, among them Cedar Waxwings, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Great Crested Flycatcher, Brown-headed Nuthatch, Chimney Swifts, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker and one Hairy Woodpecker. Two Red-shouldered Hawks flew low out of the woods and across the road in two different spots. Eastern Bluebirds flashed their colors, hunting in grassy yards.<\/p>\n
Birdsong seemed to be everywhere \u2013 Eastern Phoebe, Northern Cardinal, Tufted Titmouse, Carolina Wren, Brown Thrasher, Northern Mockingbird, Eastern Towhee, Chipping Sparrow, Red-eyed Vireo, Yellow-rumped Warblers, Pine Warbler, House Wren and House Finch all were singing. And I was somewhat surprised to hear the zhreeee<\/em> calls of what sounded like a good many Pine Siskins still here in the trees around several yards, mixed with the mews of American Goldfinches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In another part of the neighborhood, a colorful Western Palm Warbler was feeding along the roadside, gleaning insects from the grasses and weeds, with very small, pale-purple flowers in bloom all around it. This was a much closer and better view of a Palm Warbler than when I saw two in a tree a few […]<\/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\/1668"}],"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=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1670,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/1670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}