Early this morning a Wood Thrush was singing in the woods just around the corner, not far from a creek. I\u2019ve rarely heard their song this summer, so the beautiful fluted notes drifting out of the dark green trees felt like a gift.<\/p>\n
The morning was fresh and cool, with a blue and white sky. A Northern Parula sang from trees around our house, a Scarlet Tanager from its usual territory in the treetops of the woods across the street, and a Summer Tanager from deeper in the woods, pretty far away. A Red-eyed Vireo gave its nasal, complaining call. A Chipping Sparrow sang a long, light, level trill from the top of a very small pine. A Ruby-throated Hummingbird zipped over my head into a thicket of shrubs.<\/p>\n
A Great-crested Flycatcher \u2013 with lemon-yellow belly, long cinnamon tail and gray head with crest erect \u2013 perched in a tall tulip poplar and called breet<\/span>. It was answered by another \u2013 and another, all close together. At least four Great-crested Flycatchers called back and forth to each other and moved around in the leaves of the tulip poplar and some oaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Early this morning a Wood Thrush was singing in the woods just around the corner, not far from a creek. I\u2019ve rarely heard their song this summer, so the beautiful fluted notes drifting out of the dark green trees felt like a gift. The morning was fresh and cool, with a blue and white sky. […]<\/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\/316"}],"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=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}