{"id":939,"date":"2011-05-23T16:42:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T21:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=939"},"modified":"2011-05-23T16:42:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T21:42:05","slug":"young-male-blue-grosbeak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"Young Male Blue Grosbeak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young Blue Grosbeak male continues to sing in and around the old field. This morning under a hot, sunny blue sky, it sang from a chinaberry tree across the road, on the edge of a rough clearing, and it seemed to be singing today with a little more gusto and fluency. And this time, I was able to get a much better look when it flew from the tree, across the road and into the field, and perched on top of a weed there to sing. Its coloring is a fine, muted, parchment brown, paler on the belly, slightly darker on wings and back, and out in the open a distinct blue shows up in the head, back and tail, like a rich blue shadow. When it disappeared for a few minutes into thick grassy weeds near the ground, it gave its <em>chink<\/em> call. Then it flew from there back across the road and into one of several large old oaks.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the morning I walked through a low, wooded section of the neighborhood where the air still felt cool, and heard the songs of Louisiana Waterthrush, Acadian Flycatcher, Red-eyed Vireo and even a Wood Thrush, all seeming to come from along the wooded creek. A Great-crested Flycatcher called <em>breet<\/em>. A Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, <em>speee<\/em>. And the wispy, insistent calls of baby birds in several different places.<\/p>\n<p>One Summer Tanager sang closer to the roadside, but no Scarlet Tanager, and because I haven\u2019t heard a Scarlet Tanager for several days now, I had just about decided they might have all moved on further north for the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Then in one of the most unlikely areas \u2013 just outside our subdivision, across the road from the old field, a Scarlet Tanager was singing in the top of an oak tree. It\u2019s not an area where I would expect to find one at all, and might not have believed it if I hadn\u2019t seen it. But there it was, bright red with black wings in the top of the tree, singing two or three phrases of its song, then putting in a <em>chick-brrr<\/em> call, then singing again. I can only guess that it might have come across the highway from the more thickly wooded land there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young Blue Grosbeak male continues to sing in and around the old field. This morning under a hot, sunny blue sky, it sang from a chinaberry tree across the road, on the edge of a rough clearing, and it seemed to be singing today with a little more gusto and fluency. And this time, [&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\/939"}],"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=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}