{"id":4923,"date":"2022-05-02T13:09:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T18:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=4923"},"modified":"2022-05-05T16:05:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T21:05:01","slug":"migration-april-30-may-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/migration-april-30-may-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Migration, April 30 &#8211; May 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2248\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gray-catbird.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2248\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gray-catbird.jpg\" alt=\"Gray Catbird\" width=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2248\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gray Catbird (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re having a strong late April and early May songbird migration. Sparrow numbers and variety have been excellent, with many White-throated and Swamp Sparrows and Eastern Towhees around. Smaller numbers of White-crowned, Lincoln&#8217;s, Savannah, and a few Lark, Vesper, and Clay-colored Sparrows have also been seen. Non-sparrow passerines like Brown Thrashers, Gray Catbirds, and Blue-gray Gnatcatchers have been in good numbers for those species. What we haven&#8217;t been seeing are large numbers of insect dependent songbirds like flycatchers, warblers, vireos, and <i>Catharus<\/i> thrushes, excluding Hermit. This is probably because of the unseasonably chilly temperatures and persistent north winds we&#8217;ve been experiencing. Unfortunately, as of May 2, the forecast out to about May 8 doesn&#8217;t indicate much change in this pattern. When it does break and we get a serious warm up, we should see a big influx of migrants. Mid may is typically the peak of spring migration, with the largest variety of passerines of the year. As always, keep checking the <a href=\"http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/hotspot\/L161180\">Montrose Point eBird Hotspot<\/a> for the latest sightings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re having a strong late April and early May songbird migration. Sparrow numbers and variety have been excellent, with many White-throated and Swamp Sparrows and Eastern Towhees around. Smaller numbers of White-crowned, Lincoln&#8217;s, Savannah, and a few Lark, Vesper, and Clay-colored Sparrows have also been seen. Non-sparrow passerines like Brown Thrashers, Gray Catbirds, and Blue-gray [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,20],"tags":[197,121,123],"class_list":["post-4923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-bird-reports","category-weather","tag-mimids","tag-sparrows","tag-thrushes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923","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=4923"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4938,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923\/revisions\/4938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}