{"id":257,"date":"2009-02-26T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2009-02-26T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T03:55:00","slug":"birdsong-in-the-morning-%e2%80%93-beginning-to-sound-like-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Birdsong in the Morning \u2013 Beginning to Sound Like Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day began with a cool, fresh-washed early spring morning, rainwater from light showers overnight dripping from the trees and a pale blue sky with clouds of peach and gold \u2013 and birdsong all around. Pine Warblers, Carolina Wrens, Cardinals, Chickadees, Titmice, Phoebe, Brown Thrasher and House Finches sang. A vivid black, rust-red and white Towhee sang from a sprawling yellow forsythia bush on one side of the yard, then from a small tree, then from the wax myrtles \u2013 making his rounds, I think. <\/p>\n<p>A Red-bellied Woodpecker drummed on a limb and called its spring-time <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">quuurrrr<\/span>, Yellow-rumped Warblers called <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">chek<\/span>, Dark-eyed Juncos chittered, Mourning Doves cooed, Goldfinches mewed, Pine Siskins chirped and called <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">zhreeeee<\/span>.  A pair of Bluebirds flew low across the yard, the male perched on top of the birdhouse and sang \u2013 then popped down and into the entrance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day began with a cool, fresh-washed early spring morning, rainwater from light showers overnight dripping from the trees and a pale blue sky with clouds of peach and gold \u2013 and birdsong all around. Pine Warblers, Carolina Wrens, Cardinals, Chickadees, Titmice, Phoebe, Brown Thrasher and House Finches sang. A vivid black, rust-red and white [&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\/257"}],"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=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}