{"id":375,"date":"2009-08-26T13:02:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T19:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2009-11-07T09:57:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T15:57:07","slug":"drought-yard-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"Drought &#038; Yard Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the birds on the place usually stay away from the house, but in this severe drought we have the only substantial water (the creek&#8217;s dry at the south end of town, a mile downstream&#8211;and probably beyond that, too.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the past week,\u00a0 with a slightly decreased workload, I&#8217;ve been out looking for migrants in the back yard&#8211;hearing more different songs.\u00a0\u00a0 Today I was lucky enough to photograph this gorgeous male summer tanager:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-376\" title=\"summer-tanager-m063\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/summer-tanager-m063.jpg\" alt=\"summer-tanager-m063\" width=\"318\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/summer-tanager-m063.jpg 318w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/summer-tanager-m063-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->He looks a bit rough because he had taken a bath and was grooming himself.\u00a0 I think he may also be molting, but I don&#8217;t know when tanagers molt.\u00a0\u00a0 It was amazing to have the yellow warbler and the tanager in view at the same time (they did not, of course, pose together!)\u00a0 Yellow warblers sometimes come into the house yard during migration, but usually I find them out near Owl Pavilion or at the creek, if there&#8217;s water in it.\u00a0\u00a0 Also in the area (and not photographed) was a white-eyed vireo&#8211;these nest in the creek woods and the dry woods, but don&#8217;t usually come up to the house.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Earlier, I&#8217;d seen a juvenile painted bunting, which I photographed, but the adult female stayed behind leaves.\u00a0\u00a0 This is the first year we&#8217;ve seen painted buntings up near the house.<\/p>\n<p>I think the female tanager was also around, but too shy to come for a picture; the male, much bolder, hopped around in the bushes and trees and even on the ground while I photographed him.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-377\" title=\"summer-tanager-m065\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/summer-tanager-m065.jpg\" alt=\"summer-tanager-m065\" width=\"222\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/summer-tanager-m065.jpg 222w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/summer-tanager-m065-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-378\" title=\"summer-tanager-m070\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/summer-tanager-m070.jpg\" alt=\"summer-tanager-m070\" width=\"323\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/summer-tanager-m070.jpg 323w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/summer-tanager-m070-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the birds on the place usually stay away from the house, but in this severe drought we have the only substantial water (the creek&#8217;s dry at the south end of town, a mile downstream&#8211;and probably beyond that, too.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the past week,\u00a0 with a slightly decreased workload, I&#8217;ve been out looking for migrants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,4],"tags":[13,8,23,70],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-water","category-wildlife","tag-beauty","tag-bird-behavior","tag-observation","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}