{"id":586,"date":"2010-07-20T16:52:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T21:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=586"},"modified":"2010-07-21T16:55:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T21:55:27","slug":"in-the-old-field-blue-grosbeak-indigo-bunting-and-white-eyed-vireo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"In the Old Field, Blue Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting and White-eyed Vireo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the edge of the old field that runs along the road just outside our subdivision, a Blue Grosbeak has been singing every morning now for several days. This morning he perched on the crest of a diamond-shaped road sign. A dark, ink-blue with rust-orange wing bars and big silver beak, he tilted his head back and sang again and again. As I walked past him along the road only a few feet away, he stopped singing, switched his tail back and forth, and called a nervous, repeated <em>chink!<\/em> and was answered by another grosbeak hidden somewhere in the thickets \u2013 but he did not fly, and as soon as I had gone on past, he started singing again.<\/p>\n<p>I had given up on seeing a Blue Grosbeak regularly in the field this summer, because until recently, I had only seen one a couple of times \u2013 but now here in the middle of the summer, there\u2019s one that sings and sings, and seems to have a mate nearby.<\/p>\n<p>A little further up the road, an Indigo Bunting also continues to chant its <em>sweet-sweet, chew-chew, sweet-sweet<\/em> song, and this morning was perched where I could see it, in the top of a Chinaberry tree \u2013 a tiny little drop of bright clear blue, with a hint of turquoise. A White-eyed Vireo and Eastern Towhee also were singing in the field. Mockingbirds and Brown Thrashers moved quietly around in the heat-withered kudzu, privet and blackberry vines. Mourning Doves perched on the wires.<\/p>\n<p>Two Red-tailed Hawks perched on widely-spaced utility poles overlooking the field and the highway beyond \u2013 as they do just about every morning recently, at least one of them a juvenile. Two Black Vultures also are usually sitting on one of the poles, one on the pole itself, and the other on the wire right beside it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the edge of the old field that runs along the road just outside our subdivision, a Blue Grosbeak has been singing every morning now for several days. This morning he perched on the crest of a diamond-shaped road sign. A dark, ink-blue with rust-orange wing bars and big silver beak, he tilted his head [&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\/586"}],"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=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}