{"id":1798,"date":"2013-11-17T22:15:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T03:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2014-01-02T18:16:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T23:16:57","slug":"gray-catbird-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1798","title":{"rendered":"Gray Catbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a dark-gray, drizzly day, flocks of American Robins and Cedar Waxwings filled the thickets and trees in and around the old field with a bustle of activity. The Robins squeakily called, perched in several trees, and restlessly flew back and forth across the road. I could hear the thin high <em>tseees<\/em> of the Waxwings, but couldn\u2019t see them in the murky, misty light until they flew \u2013 one flock, then another and another, suddenly flying up and away, at least four dozen Cedar Waxwings, maybe more.<\/p>\n<p>Then a raspy call came from a very tangled and weedy area across the road from the field \u2013 a Gray Catbird, perched on a low limb of a tree choked in weeds and vines. Dark-gray all over, the Catbird blended in with the shadows, but switched its tail back and forth assertively, and repeated its cat-like mew several times, a prickly, abrasive mew that reflected the scrubby, tangled surroundings a Catbird often loves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a dark-gray, drizzly day, flocks of American Robins and Cedar Waxwings filled the thickets and trees in and around the old field with a bustle of activity. The Robins squeakily called, perched in several trees, and restlessly flew back and forth across the road. I could hear the thin high tseees of the Waxwings, [&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\/1798"}],"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=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1800,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}