{"id":731,"date":"2011-02-04T16:34:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T21:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=731"},"modified":"2011-02-04T16:34:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T21:34:25","slug":"two-hermit-thrushes-and-one-brown-creeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"Two Hermit Thrushes and One Brown Creeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further up the road, two Hermit Thrushes called <em>chrup<\/em> over and over again from a thicket of small trees and bushes near the roadside. One perched out in the open on a branch in a cedar, a beautiful view of its spotted breast and wide-eyed face.<\/p>\n<p>As I turned into our driveway, a Mockingbird and a male Bluebird seemed to tangle briefly in a sharp buzzing exchange \u2013 each flying to a different tree \u2013 and I wondered what that was about. Several Dark-eyed Juncos flushed up from foraging on the ground, into the trees, and two Brown-headed Nuthatches shared one of the feeders with Chipping sparrows. As I was watching the Nuthatches, behind them on the trunk of a pine appeared one of the best surprises of the morning \u2013 a Brown Creeper. It crept quickly almost straight up the trunk, staying in view for several seconds, then finally spiraled around and out of sight, and I lost it, probably flown to a nearby tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further up the road, two Hermit Thrushes called chrup over and over again from a thicket of small trees and bushes near the roadside. One perched out in the open on a branch in a cedar, a beautiful view of its spotted breast and wide-eyed face. As I turned into our driveway, a Mockingbird and [&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\/731"}],"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=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}