{"id":847,"date":"2011-03-18T12:30:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T17:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=847"},"modified":"2011-04-03T10:48:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T15:48:16","slug":"new-birdsongs-%e2%80%93-chipping-sparrow-and-ruby-crowned-kinglet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"New Birdsongs \u2013 Chipping Sparrow and Ruby-crowned Kinglet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back at home from a few days on the coast, we arrived at night, right after a good rain, so this morning the world looked fresh with touches of green and right on the brink of Spring. Many birds were singing \u2013 Carolina Wren, Northern Cardinal, Tufted Titmouse, Carolina Chickadee, Eastern Phoebe, Brown Thrasher, American Robin \u2013 and the calls of Downy Woodpecker and Red-bellied Woodpecker, even the long rattle of a Hairy Woodpecker from not far away in the woods. Several American Goldfinches are still coming to the feeders, and beginning to light up with lemon-yellow color. There were the <em>zhreeee<\/em> calls of at least a few Pine Siskins still around in the treetops. And the <em>chrup<\/em> of a Hermit Thrush that I heard \u2013 though I couldn\u2019t see it, it was somewhere near. Two Canada Geese honked as they fly over.<\/p>\n<p>And a new note added to the morning chorus \u2013 the light, high, lingering trill of Chipping Sparrows. Not just one, but at least three or four were singing from different places around the yard \u2013 one perched in a low branch of a red maple tree dense with young dark-red leaves. Their songs at this time of year, especially in the early hours of the morning, seem to me to have a fresh, delicate quality that is less common as the season goes on. Before we left, Pine Warblers were singing everywhere, but now, I only heard one or two singing later in the morning, while the trills of Chipping Sparrows were everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Then another new song \u2013 the quick start and rapid, exuberant burst of notes from somewhere in a tangled privet thicket \u2013 a Ruby-crowned Kinglet.<\/p>\n<p>Two dozen or more Cedar Waxwings perched in the still-bare limbs of pecan trees and came to the birdbath to bathe. A female Yellow-bellied Sapsucker stayed for a long time checking holes in the pecan trees in the front yard before a second Sapsucker, this one a male, flew in and chased her away. He stayed for a while, then \u2013 or maybe she came back. I lost track. Both are so well camouflaged against the bark of the trees. Robins squeaked and chucked. An Eastern Bluebird sang from somewhere, not too near, and I did not see one going in or coming out of the bluebird box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back at home from a few days on the coast, we arrived at night, right after a good rain, so this morning the world looked fresh with touches of green and right on the brink of Spring. Many birds were singing \u2013 Carolina Wren, Northern Cardinal, Tufted Titmouse, Carolina Chickadee, Eastern Phoebe, Brown Thrasher, American [&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\/847"}],"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=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}