{"id":763,"date":"2011-02-15T17:40:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T22:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=763"},"modified":"2011-02-16T17:41:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T22:41:13","slug":"the-shadow-%e2%80%93-a-gray-catbird-in-privet-and-vines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"The Shadow \u2013 A Gray Catbird in Privet and Vines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And then \u2013 turning attention from the clear, colorful light in a treetop back to the murky tangles of the thicket \u2013 a dark shadow emerged and hopped up to the top of a bush \u2013 a Gray Catbird. What a surprise! All sleek, slate-gray with an ink-black cap, it sat with its tail slightly held up, erect and alert, looking around, and even mewed once. Then it flew to another spot, a low branch in an oak, and stayed there for several seconds before diving back out of sight into the weeds.<\/p>\n<p>It might have wintered here, but if so, it\u2019s been very quiet and reclusive. It\u2019s certainly the first one I\u2019ve seen or heard here all winter. In general, Catbirds here seem to move at least a little further south, then reappear early each spring. But I really don\u2019t know. Either way, it was fun to see and nice to know it\u2019s there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And then \u2013 turning attention from the clear, colorful light in a treetop back to the murky tangles of the thicket \u2013 a dark shadow emerged and hopped up to the top of a bush \u2013 a Gray Catbird. What a surprise! All sleek, slate-gray with an ink-black cap, it sat with its tail slightly [&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\/763"}],"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=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}