{"id":2003,"date":"2014-04-14T21:58:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T02:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2014-05-19T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T19:00:11","slug":"yellow-rumped-warblers-singing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=2003","title":{"rendered":"Yellow-rumped Warblers Singing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a cool, gray morning with new leaves filling out the trees more and more each day and white dogwoods in snowy bloom, a Red-eyed Vireo again sang in the woods around the back yard. Northern Cardinal, Tufted Titmouse, Carolina Chickadee, and a Ruby-crowned Kinglet also sang. Blue Jays cried, and a Hairy Woodpecker flew over, calling its emphatic <em>peenk<\/em> several times, and then I could hear it begin to work on a tree not far away in the woods. A Great Crested Flycatcher called its deep <em>whreep<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the front yard, an Eastern Bluebird flew swiftly out of the bluebird box, a female, I think. A Northern Mockingbird, Brown Thrasher, Carolina Wren, Eastern Towhee, Eastern Phoebe, and Chipping Sparrow sang nearby, and the shining notes of a Louisiana Waterthrush rose from along the creek. A Downy Woodpecker whinnied, American Crows cawed as they flew over, and two walked around the yard. A Mourning Dove cooed. Azaleas bloomed in big, loose, pale-pink blossoms, like clouds of flowers drifting in the yard. A Brown Thrasher kicking up the mulch stopped, and ran for cover under a bush.<\/p>\n<p>The soft, jingling songs of Yellow-rumped Warblers filled the trees all around with loose, gentle trills, like bracelets ringing. There were several small birds in the oaks above me, and all of them I could see were Yellow-rumped Warblers. A half dozen White-throated Sparrows scratched at the mulch and leaves under shrubs. Another White-throated Sparrow sang from down the street, then another and another, their high, whistled songs lingering like echoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a cool, gray morning with new leaves filling out the trees more and more each day and white dogwoods in snowy bloom, a Red-eyed Vireo again sang in the woods around the back yard. Northern Cardinal, Tufted Titmouse, Carolina Chickadee, and a Ruby-crowned Kinglet also sang. Blue Jays cried, and a Hairy Woodpecker flew [&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\/2003"}],"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=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2005,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/2005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}