{"id":252,"date":"2009-02-15T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2009-02-15T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T16:16:00","slug":"pine-siskin-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Pine Siskin Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several Pine Siskins continue to visit the feeder on the edge of our back deck. Mornings are the busiest hours of the day. At times there are Siskins at each opening on the feeder and several waiting on the deck rail or the top of the feeder or the branches overhead. From time to time, one of the waiting Siskins will decide it\u2019s time for a change. It flies to the feeder and causes a great commotion of fluttering wings all around, and when they settle, the new one usually has a place.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sigridsanders.com\/birding\/uploaded_images\/DSC_3134-746717.jpg\" ><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sigridsanders.com\/birding\/uploaded_images\/DSC_3134-746713.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>My favorite part of watching the Siskins is listening to their calls. Around the feeder, there\u2019s a constant <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">chirp-chirp-chirping<\/span>. When they\u2019re up in the pines, several of them gathered to preen, or maybe foraging there, too, they use their buzzy-ringing <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">zhreeeeeee<\/span> calls, usually with a long, rising inflection \u2013 but I\u2019ve also heard a slightly shorter <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">zhreeee<\/span> as a downward slurring call.<\/p>\n<p>At times \u2013 usually during the late morning or afternoon \u2013 one Pine Siskin (not always the same one) will try to monopolize the feeder, fending off all others, lunging with spread wings and open bill at any others that approach.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sigridsanders.com\/birding\/uploaded_images\/DSC_3128-774464.jpg\" ><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sigridsanders.com\/birding\/uploaded_images\/DSC_3128-774460.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Often during the day, one or two American Goldfinches manage to work their way in for a while. But most of the time, the Siskins seem to dominate, and we do not have large numbers of Goldfinches. Two Dark-eyed Juncos often feed on seeds scattered below the feeder.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sigridsanders.com\/birding\/uploaded_images\/DSC_3142-790177.jpg\" ><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sigridsanders.com\/birding\/uploaded_images\/DSC_3142-790169.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Thanks, Clate, for these photos!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several Pine Siskins continue to visit the feeder on the edge of our back deck. Mornings are the busiest hours of the day. At times there are Siskins at each opening on the feeder and several waiting on the deck rail or the top of the feeder or the branches overhead. From time to time, [&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\/252"}],"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=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}