{"id":2213,"date":"2018-05-06T18:07:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T23:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2019-03-21T10:55:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T15:55:18","slug":"tree-top-feeding-passerines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/tree-top-feeding-passerines\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree Top Feeding Passerines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2071\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/birds-flies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2071\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/birds-flies.jpg\" alt=\"Passerines feeding on flies\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2071\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passerines feeding on flies (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you were at Montrose on May 5 you probably noticed the many passerines feeding in the tops of trees that were leafing out. These birds &#8211; Gray Catbirds, Swainson&#8217;s Thrushes, Baltimore Orioles, and a variety of warblers and sparrows were feeding on small flies. I also saw a Prothonotary Warbler and White-eyed Vireo doing the same. I&#8217;m not sure what kind of flies these were, possibly midges, but it was enjoyable to watch normally ground dwelling birds up high and above eye level.<\/p>\n<p>This photo shows Red-winged Blackbirds, White-throated and White-crowned Sparrows, Gray Catbirds, and a Swainson&#8217;s Thrush, all feasting on flies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were at Montrose on May 5 you probably noticed the many passerines feeding in the tops of trees that were leafing out. These birds &#8211; Gray Catbirds, Swainson&#8217;s Thrushes, Baltimore Orioles, and a variety of warblers and sparrows were feeding on small flies. I also saw a Prothonotary Warbler and White-eyed Vireo doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[62,118,106,41],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-bird-reports","tag-prothonotary-warbler","tag-vireos","tag-warblers","tag-white-eyed-vireo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2546,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions\/2546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}