{"id":24437,"date":"2025-04-13T14:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T19:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24437"},"modified":"2025-06-01T21:39:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T02:39:31","slug":"eastern-phoebe-sayornis-phoebe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24437","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Phoebe (<em>Sayornis phoebe<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24439\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_20250413_023302.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24439\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_20250413_023302-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_20250413_023302-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_20250413_023302-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_20250413_023302-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_20250413_023302-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_20250413_023302.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eastern Phoebe (<em>Sayornis phoebe<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy and I went to Seneca Creek where Berryville Road passes right next to it. We saw a belted kingfisher (<em>Megaceryle alcyon<\/em>) on a tree leaning out over the water and I was able to get a few photos, although it was pretty far away. We walked upstream and enjoyed the bluebells (<em>Mertensia virginica<\/em>) that wrre pretty much in full bloom. Some of the flowers were brown, probably as a result of the recent freeze we had a week or so ago.<\/p>\n<p>We heard quite a few birds, including wood thrush (<em>Hylocichla mustelina<\/em>) and northern waterthrush (<em>Parkesia noveboracensis<\/em>). We didn&#8217;t see either of those. A blue-gray gnatcatcher (<em>Polioptila caerulea<\/em>) kept showing up on Cathy&#8217;s Merlin screen but I didn&#8217;t expect to be able to see this little, elusive bird. We did, though, and I was able to get a photo or two.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s photo is of an eastern phoebe (<em>Sayornis phoebe<\/em>) who sat on a branch over the creek and let me get fairly close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy and I went to Seneca Creek where Berryville Road passes right next to it. We saw a belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) on a tree leaning out over the water and I was able to get a few photos, although it was pretty far away. We walked upstream and enjoyed the bluebells (Mertensia virginica) that &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24437\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[61,3708,3709,3711,3710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24437"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24456,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24437\/revisions\/24456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}