{"id":2095,"date":"2015-11-30T19:33:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T00:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2016-03-16T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T21:36:09","slug":"early-morning-birdsongs-and-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=2095","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning Birdsongs and Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the gray light of early morning, well before sunrise, a Carolina Wren greeted the day with a burst of musical song \u2013 a sunny <em>jubilee-jubilee-jubilee<\/em>, answered by a long, ringing trill from another Carolina Wren. An Eastern Towhee called a colorful <em>chur-whee<\/em>, and a White-throated Sparrow whistled its haunting <em>Oh sweet Canada<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The morning air drifting in through an open bedroom window felt cool and damp, but not at all cold. Outside, a light fog shrouded the ground. A soft patter of what sounded like rain was not rain, but showers of small dry leaves from water oak trees that fell in the slightest breeze. A Hermit Thrush called a soft, liquid <em>chup<\/em>, from branches right outside the window \u2013 one of the sweetest and most welcome sounds of the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Then Northern Cardinals began to peep, several White-throated Sparrows called <em>tseeet<\/em> and began to rustle and scratch in dry leaves on the ground. A Brown Thrasher called a sharp <em>tschack!<\/em> There were the distant caws of American Crows, the <em>chuck-chuck<\/em> of a Red-bellied Woodpecker in the woods, and the gray, intense, lisping song of an Eastern Phoebe, followed by the sudden bright rattle of a Belted Kingfisher flying over the house toward the creek.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina Chickadees and Tufted Titmice began to chatter, a Downy Woodpecker whinnied, and a Dark-eyed Junco gave a soft, muffled, jingling call. A Ruby-crowned Kinglet stuttered its dry <em>jidit-jidit-jidit<\/em> in some shrubs, and a Golden-crowned Kinglet called a high, thin <em>ti-ti-ti<\/em> from high in the trees. Blue Jays cried from somewhere down the street. In the last few minutes before sunrise \u2013 a sunrise likely to be hidden in gray clouds and fog \u2013 a Pileated Woodpecker moving through trees on the edge of the woods clucked in its traveling <em>cuk-cuk-cuk-cuk<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So even on this last day of November, foggy, gray and cool, an early morning still begins with a musical tribute to the dawn and the calls of neighbor to neighbor, making the rounds and checking in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the gray light of early morning, well before sunrise, a Carolina Wren greeted the day with a burst of musical song \u2013 a sunny jubilee-jubilee-jubilee, answered by a long, ringing trill from another Carolina Wren. An Eastern Towhee called a colorful chur-whee, and a White-throated Sparrow whistled its haunting Oh sweet Canada. The morning [&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\/2095"}],"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=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2097,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/2097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}