{"id":1686,"date":"2013-05-24T23:17:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T04:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2013-07-10T15:18:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T20:18:33","slug":"awaiting-the-rise-of-a-full-moon-%e2%80%93-carolina-wrens-singing-back-and-forth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1686","title":{"rendered":"Awaiting the Rise of a Full Moon \u2013 Carolina Wrens Singing Back and Forth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not long after sunset this evening, a clear, quiet, blue-gray sky looked empty of clouds. A Carolina Wren began to sing nearby &#8211; <em>chur-eee, chur-eee, chur-eee. <\/em>It was answered by another Carolina Wren in a neighbor\u2019s yard, singing the same two-syllable song. They sang back and forth a few times, before a third Carolina Wren down in the woods chimed in with the same song, and I could even hear a fourth Carolina Wren responding with a similar <em>chur-eee, chur-eee, chur-eee<\/em>, very far away to the southeast.<\/p>\n<p>A male Ruby-throated Hummingbird came to the feeder hanging from the deck; an Eastern Bluebird sang its blurry notes; a Red-bellied Woodpecker called <em>quurrrr<\/em>, a Great Crested Flycatcher called a full-throated <em>whreeep<\/em> from somewhere down in the woods, and a Scarlet Tanager began to sing its strident song from a tall oak on the edge of our yard, interjecting a <em>chick-brrr<\/em> call several times.<\/p>\n<p>As the twilight deepened, birds fell silent, and a big, gleaming, white-gold moon drifted up through the trees in the southeast, in a clear and cloudless evening sky. Crickets chirped, though the air felt cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long after sunset this evening, a clear, quiet, blue-gray sky looked empty of clouds. A Carolina Wren began to sing nearby &#8211; chur-eee, chur-eee, chur-eee. It was answered by another Carolina Wren in a neighbor\u2019s yard, singing the same two-syllable song. They sang back and forth a few times, before a third Carolina Wren [&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\/1686"}],"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=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1688,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}