{"id":2574,"date":"2025-08-12T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T02:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2025-08-20T16:20:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:20:01","slug":"scarlet-tanager-great-crested-flycatchers-red-eyed-vireo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=2574","title":{"rendered":"Scarlet Tanager, Great Crested Flycatchers, Red-eyed Vireo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Early this morning I stepped out into a steamy, wet, very warm day. Our summer heat has returned. Low filmy clouds still hung over the dripping trees and kept the light gray. But the sharp, clear chik-brrr<\/em> calls of a Scarlet Tanager immediately brightened the day, the first time I\u2019ve heard a Scarlet Tanager in a few weeks. Its calls were very clear and close, but it stayed deeply hidden in the foliage, somewhere in trees on the edge of the yard, so I was never able to catch sight of it. Still \u2013 just nice to know it\u2019s here and to listen as it moved through the trees.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several other birds were much more active this morning than they\u2019ve recently been. Two Great Crested Flycatchers called whreeps<\/em> back and forth. An Acadian Flycatcher sang its crisp tee-chip<\/em> from not far away in the woods. Carolina Wrens trilled and burbled and fussed. A White-breasted Nuthatch called. Carolina Chickadees and Tufted Titmice kept up a running comment in low,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

brief, chipping notes, kind of a background sound. Northern Cardinals peeped. Crickets chirped. Brown-headed Nuthatches chattered their squeaky-dees<\/em> in the pines. An American Crow stopped by for a few minutes, cawing very loudly right overhead, but then flew away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ruby-throated Hummingbirds came frequently to the feeder, twittering fiercely when they encountered each other, which was often. Once I saw three in the air together, intersecting, then zipping off in different directions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then a Red-eyed Vireo began to sing. It wasn\u2019t especially close, maybe somewhere around a neighbor\u2019s yard, and it sounded a little muffled in the foggy distance \u2013 but it sang its repeated refrain over and over again for several minutes and was very nice to hear! Like the Scarlet Tanager, I have not heard or seen a Red-eyed Vireo in several weeks. So maybe the predominant quiet of summer is beginning to come to an end, as birds begin to disperse and prepare for fall migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a while, many of the birds fell quiet or drifted further away, leaving a soft, wet morning, still punctuated now and then by the Acadian Flycatcher\u2019s tee-chip<\/em>, and the twitter of hummingbirds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gentle, blurry coos of a Mourning Dove emerged from the clouds and the fog. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early this morning I stepped out into a steamy, wet, very warm day. Our summer heat has returned. Low filmy clouds still hung over the dripping trees and kept the light gray. But the sharp, clear chik-brrr calls of a Scarlet Tanager immediately brightened the day, the first time I\u2019ve heard a Scarlet Tanager in a few […]<\/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\/2574"}],"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=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}