{"id":2057,"date":"2015-09-16T18:07:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T23:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2016-03-04T16:11:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T21:11:22","slug":"a-little-brown-bird-with-a-bodacious-voice-and-personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=2057","title":{"rendered":"A Little Brown Bird with a Bodacious Voice \u2013 and Personality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first birdsong of the morning was the bright, musical song of a Carolina Wren. Belted out like a Broadway tune, the melody rang from the shrubs on the edge of the house, <em>jubilee-jubilee-jubilee<\/em> \u2013 just one song variation in the extensive repertoire of a Carolina Wren.<\/p>\n<p>The second and third songs also came from Carolina Wrens \u2013 our most vocal birds right now. While many other songbirds have fallen rather quiet at this time of year, Carolina Wrens fill the days with a variety of songs and a wide array of calls that are almost as varied and impressive in different ways \u2013 trills, buzzy fussing, burbling, bleating calls that tumble through the bushes and around the yard.<\/p>\n<p>A Carolina Wren is a small, cinnamon-brown bird with a short, stubby shape and an abundance of attitude. A jaunty white stripe over its eye; a long, strong, down-curved bill; and a long tail often turned up \u2013 all help to reflect its confident, bold demeanor, which at times seems out of all proportion to its size.<\/p>\n<p>Though I think of a Carolina Wren as a typically southern bird, it\u2019s now common throughout most of the eastern U.S. As the climate has warmed, it has expanded its range substantially over the past century or so. It\u2019s very much at home around the house and yard, the one most likely to build its nest in a hanging plant or an old flower pot or a forgotten basket on the shelf of a garage.<\/p>\n<p>This little brown bird graces our days with beautiful music \u2013 also out of all proportion to its size and appearance. We\u2019re very lucky to have them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first birdsong of the morning was the bright, musical song of a Carolina Wren. Belted out like a Broadway tune, the melody rang from the shrubs on the edge of the house, jubilee-jubilee-jubilee \u2013 just one song variation in the extensive repertoire of a Carolina Wren. The second and third songs also came from [&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\/2057"}],"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=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2059,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}