{"id":288,"date":"2009-05-01T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=288"},"modified":"2009-05-01T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T02:38:00","slug":"black-throated-green-warbler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Black-throated Green Warbler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early in the afternoon, I was sitting out front after lunch for a few minutes \u2013 much too nice a day to stay inside \u2013 listening to the calls of a Great-crested Flycatcher, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Phoebe, and a couple of Brown-headed Nuthatches, and the songs of a Yellow-throated Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo, Northern Parula and Chipping Sparrow, and watching our Bluebird pair continue to bring food to the nest box \u2013 when I heard a buzzy song in the treetops that caught my attention \u2013 <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">trees-trees-whispering trees<\/span>. I\u2019m not good at recognizing most wood warbler songs, but this is one I\u2019ve always especially loved \u2013 a Black-throated Green Warbler, a small, vividly-patterned woodland bird that looks like its name \u2013 with a greenish back, bright yellow face, olive crown, black throat and bold patterns of black and white in its wings and flanks. Its song is usually described as something like <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">zee-zee-zee-zooo-zeet<\/span>, but somewhere I heard the more poetic description, and that\u2019s what I\u2019ve always remembered. <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Trees-trees-whispering trees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I could see it rustling through the highest part of the treetops, but the most I could make out was a glimpse of black as it moved, so I never really saw it, and then it disappeared and I couldn\u2019t hear its song anymore, so it must have flown on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early in the afternoon, I was sitting out front after lunch for a few minutes \u2013 much too nice a day to stay inside \u2013 listening to the calls of a Great-crested Flycatcher, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Phoebe, and a couple of Brown-headed Nuthatches, and the songs of a Yellow-throated Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo, Northern Parula and Chipping [&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\/288"}],"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=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}