{"id":24569,"date":"2025-07-06T16:39:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T21:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24569"},"modified":"2025-09-11T21:21:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T02:21:47","slug":"song-sparrow-melospiza-melodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24569","title":{"rendered":"Song Sparrow (<em>Melospiza melodia<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24571\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_20250706_024718.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24571\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_20250706_024718-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_20250706_024718-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_20250706_024718-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_20250706_024718-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_20250706_024718-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_20250706_024718.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Song Sparrow (<em>Melospiza melodia<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After church today, and before we visited Cathy&#8217;s mom, we stopped at the Agricultural History Farm Park and enjoyed a few minutes in the demonstration garden. There were <em>Crocosmia<\/em> in bloom, among other things. From the garden, we walked down through the meadow, which was rich with <em>Helianthus<\/em> and <em>Monarda<\/em>. I got one good bird photo, this time of a Song Sparrow (<em>Melospiza melodia<\/em>). It&#8217;s not the flashiest of birds, but, as the name suggests, it&#8217;s a songster with a varied repertoire. The heat of the day in the summer isn&#8217;t the best time for bird photography, but I&#8217;ll take what I can get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After church today, and before we visited Cathy&#8217;s mom, we stopped at the Agricultural History Farm Park and enjoyed a few minutes in the demonstration garden. There were Crocosmia in bloom, among other things. From the garden, we walked down through the meadow, which was rich with Helianthus and Monarda. I got one good bird &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24569\">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":[6],"tags":[61,3738,3737,3736,3735,2422,480],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24569"}],"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=24569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24573,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24569\/revisions\/24573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}