{"id":5758,"date":"2014-05-08T09:37:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T14:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=5758"},"modified":"2014-05-14T07:35:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T12:35:25","slug":"chipping-sparrow-spizella-passerina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=5758","title":{"rendered":"Chipping Sparrow (<em>Spizella passerina<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5760\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/img_20140508_083349.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5760\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/img_20140508_083349-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Chipping Sparrow (&lt;em&gt;Spizella passerina&lt;\/em&gt;)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/img_20140508_083349-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/img_20140508_083349-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/img_20140508_083349-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/img_20140508_083349-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/img_20140508_083349.jpg 1799w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chipping Sparrow (<em>Spizella passerina<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I dropped Dorothy off at school today for one of her finals (AP Literature, I think) and went in to visit briefly with a few of my friends in the lower school and office. On the way back to the car I heard a high-pitched chirping coming from the top of a small oak tree next to my van. This is the source, sitting high in the tree. I wasn&#8217;t sure what it was, partly because of the angle from which I was seeing it but mostly because I don&#8217;t know my birds nearly as well as I might. So, I did what any self-respecting person would do, I asked my brothers. Albert and George both thought it looked like a chipping sparrow (the dark line through the eye) and Albert asked if the song sounded like those presented at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/chipping_sparrow\/sounds\" title=\"All About Birds - Chipping Sparrow - Sounds\" target=\"_blank\">All About Birds page for the chipping sparrow<\/a>. Indeed it did. Quite recognizably. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dropped Dorothy off at school today for one of her finals (AP Literature, I think) and went in to visit briefly with a few of my friends in the lower school and office. On the way back to the car I heard a high-pitched chirping coming from the top of a small oak tree &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=5758\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758"}],"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=5758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5762,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions\/5762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}