{"id":2125,"date":"2016-04-20T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T03:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2016-05-24T14:51:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T19:51:21","slug":"great-crested-flycatcher-and-other-recent-arrivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=2125","title":{"rendered":"Great Crested Flycatcher and Other Recent Arrivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past few days have been picture-perfect, beautiful spring days, with blue skies and scattered white clouds, and a very warm sun \u2013 and the arrival of more and more spring and summer birds \u2013 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Chimney Swifts, at least one singing Red-eyed Vireo, and today I heard the first deep, rolling <em>whreeep<\/em> of a Great Crested Flycatcher.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a Black-and-white Warbler continues to sing in the woods around our back yard; a Louisiana Waterthrush sings from down along the creek; and now and then a Yellow-throated Vireo passes through the treetops near the house \u2013 whenever I hear its song I stop whatever I\u2019m doing, if I can, and just listen, happy to have it here. Ruby-throated Hummingbirds \u2013 both male and female \u2013 come often to the feeder now.<\/p>\n<p>Early mornings begin with the songs of Northern Cardinal, Eastern Towhee, Carolina Wren, Eastern Phoebe, Brown Thrasher, Eastern Bluebird, Pine Warbler and Chipping Sparrow \u2013 and the sweetly whistled songs of White-throated Sparrows, which are all the sweeter because it won\u2019t be long before they leave for their summer homes in the far north.<\/p>\n<p>House Wrens have also returned to the neighborhood over the past week \u2013 and I can\u2019t say I\u2019m happy to see them. Their bubbly, cheery songs used to sound pretty to me \u2013 but now I\u2019m afraid their arrival is not good news for our Carolina Chickadees and Eastern Bluebirds, both already nesting in four bluebird houses around the yard. Already we\u2019ve seen a House Wren sticking its head out of one bluebird house that did have a bluebird nest, and we checked another house and found a chickadee nest in which several eggs and two tiny nestlings all had been destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>On a brighter note, the nest of a pair of Eastern Phoebes in the high crook of a gutter along one corner of the house seems to be doing just fine. The parents are going back and forth frequently, feeding nestlings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past few days have been picture-perfect, beautiful spring days, with blue skies and scattered white clouds, and a very warm sun \u2013 and the arrival of more and more spring and summer birds \u2013 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Chimney Swifts, at least one singing Red-eyed Vireo, and today I heard the first deep, rolling whreeep of [&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\/2125"}],"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=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2126,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions\/2126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}