{"id":2067,"date":"2015-09-25T20:54:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T01:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2016-03-11T15:57:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T20:57:15","slug":"magnolia-warbler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=2067","title":{"rendered":"Magnolia Warbler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cool, gray, misty morning followed a night of heavy rain. By mid-morning, gray clouds still hung very low and dark, and a light mist continued to fall. Rainwater dripped from trees and large bushes, crickets and grasshoppers sang. At first, as I started a walk down the street, I heard no birds, except for the distant caws of American Crows. Then gradually I began to hear a few, the chatter of Carolina Chickadees, the nasal calls of two White-breasted Nuthatches, the whistled <em>puh-wee<\/em> of two Eastern Wood-Peewees. A quiet Northern Mockingbird ruffled its wet wings as it perched among drenched leaves on a crape myrtle branch.<\/p>\n<p>A little further on, I passed the scattered chatter of Tufted Titmice, Carolina Wrens, Northern Cardinals, the cries of Blue Jays, the chucking calls of Red-bellied Woodpeckers and delicate rattles of Downies. With a flash of sudden color in the fog, an Eastern Bluebird flew to the top of a tree.<\/p>\n<p>A small flutter of wings and rustle of leaves, and a flash of yellow caught my attention in a tangle of kudzu, privet and young water oaks. For several minutes I watched and followed the constant movement of a small bird that I couldn\u2019t quite see well \u2013 though I could follow its movement through the wet, very dense vegetation, showing only quick, partial, frustrating glimpses of wings or head or tail.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, it came out for one good, clear moment, and I saw a brightly-marked immature Magnolia Warbler \u2013 a small, fluttery wood warbler with smooth gray head and face, white eye-ring, bright yellow throat and breast, and faint dark streaks on the sides, white wing bars and yellow rump. A small indentation of pale gray at the shoulder may have been part of a pale-gray neckband. As it moved again, turning around, it showed the under side of the tail, clean white with a broad black band at the edge. Very nice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cool, gray, misty morning followed a night of heavy rain. By mid-morning, gray clouds still hung very low and dark, and a light mist continued to fall. Rainwater dripped from trees and large bushes, crickets and grasshoppers sang. At first, as I started a walk down the street, I heard no birds, except for [&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\/2067"}],"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=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2068,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/2068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}