The most noticeable birds as I walked through the neighborhood, though, were Eastern Bluebirds \u2013 they seemed to have come into bloom everywhere. Three blue, blue males with rose-orange breasts perched in a small, bare-limbed tree in one yard as I walked past, stunning against a clear blue sky and white snow all around.<\/p>\n
A little further on, a small mixed flock of Eastern Bluebirds and warm-yellow Pine Warblers foraged in open patches of brown grass, where the snow had already melted. And at several spots along the road, Bluebirds flew, flashing their colors. I don\u2019t think there were more than usual, really, but the reflective brilliance of the snow and unusually dry, clear air lit everything with unusual clarity.<\/p>\n
A Red-tailed Hawk, for instance, came sailing low overhead as I was watching a column of about a dozen Black Vultures soaring and circling upward. Its cream-white, shining shape made me catch my breath, partly because it came so suddenly into view, more because I could see it with such clear detail \u2013 the widespread wings, whitish breast and underside, streaked band across the belly, brown hood, and the darker brown of the back and top side of the wings, the dull red-orange of the tail, with the touch of white at the base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The most noticeable birds as I walked through the neighborhood, though, were Eastern Bluebirds \u2013 they seemed to have come into bloom everywhere. Three blue, blue males with rose-orange breasts perched in a small, bare-limbed tree in one yard as I walked past, stunning against a clear blue sky and white snow all around. A […]<\/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\/754"}],"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=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}