{"id":348,"date":"2009-10-15T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=348"},"modified":"2009-10-15T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T01:05:00","slug":"yellow-bellied-sapsucker-%e2%80%93-first-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":"Yellow-bellied Sapsucker \u2013 First of the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I got back home and walked down the driveway, two Chipping Sparrows flew out of the wax myrtles and up into a tree, and one lone Chimney Swift flew over. By this time, the mist had become a light rain. I was just about to go inside when a woodpecker swooped down from over the roof, into one of the pecan trees, and when I looked more closely \u2013 sure enough \u2013 it was a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. The first of the season I\u2019ve seen here. It was quiet, not mewing, and went quickly from spot to spot, up and down the trunk of the pecan, finally finding a spot it liked and tapping there for a few minutes. Even in the misty gray light, its colors looked rich \u2013 red crown and red throat, and a mellow, dark-flecked, yellow-brown belly. It stayed in the trees around the front yard until a couple of noisy racing squirrels seemed to disturb it into flying further away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I got back home and walked down the driveway, two Chipping Sparrows flew out of the wax myrtles and up into a tree, and one lone Chimney Swift flew over. By this time, the mist had become a light rain. I was just about to go inside when a woodpecker swooped down from over [&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\/348"}],"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=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}