{"id":2020,"date":"2014-04-27T21:02:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T02:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2014-09-15T16:04:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T21:04:47","slug":"black-throated-blue-warbler-at-sandy-creek-nature-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=2020","title":{"rendered":"Black-throated Blue Warbler at Sandy Creek Nature Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a clear, cool, crisp spring morning, birds were singing all along the greenway trail that runs through a part of Sandy Creek Nature Center in Athens. I was there for a bike ride with friends and had promised not to get too distracted by birds, so I didn\u2019t stop often, but when I heard the buzzy <em>zoo-zoo-zoo-ZEEE<\/em> song of a Black-throated Blue Warbler, I had to take a break.<\/p>\n<p>It was singing from low in a tangle of branches and vines along the edge of the river \u2013 a compact little bird that looked mostly dark with a very white belly and a small patch of white on the wing. In its shadowy, leafy setting, the slate-blue color of the back and black face, throat and sides couldn\u2019t be distinguished very well. But it sang as it moved through the branches, and I watched as it snapped up a wiggling caterpillar in its small, thin bill, shook it and swallowed \u2013 and then lifted its head and sang again.<\/p>\n<p>Also singing in different areas along the river were several White-eyed Vireos, Red-eyed Vireo, Summer Tanager, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Black-and-white Warbler, Northern Parula, Louisiana Waterthrush, Yellow-rumped Warblers, Common Yellowthroat and Indigo Bunting. And one Barred Owl called a foggy <em>Who-cooks-for-you<\/em> several times from distant woods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a clear, cool, crisp spring morning, birds were singing all along the greenway trail that runs through a part of Sandy Creek Nature Center in Athens. I was there for a bike ride with friends and had promised not to get too distracted by birds, so I didn\u2019t stop often, but when I heard [&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\/2020"}],"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=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}