{"id":951,"date":"2006-01-20T13:08:37","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T20:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/birding-2\/"},"modified":"2006-01-20T13:08:37","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T20:08:37","slug":"birding-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/birding-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Birding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/copcar.typepad.com\/cop_cars_beat\/\">Cop Car<\/a>, I made the time to browse through the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/067945120X\/sr=1-3\/qid=1137781189\/ref=sr_1_3\/104-9267516-5986321?%5Fencoding=UTF8\">Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America<\/a>&#8221; just now, and I&#8217;m really confused.<br \/>\nWe have large flocks of what we&#8217;ve always called black birds or starlings that visit us Spring and Fall, as they migrate.  Occasionally they will like the food at the feeder so much that they stay for protracted periods of time.<br \/>\nI THINK that we have had European Starlings.  I&#8217;m basing that on the fact that they have the oil-greenish tint to their feathers.  The starlings have a yellow bill and are larger.  The first summer red-wing blackbird is similar, but more drab.  I&#8217;ll have to watch carefully when they return this year.<br \/>\nWe have red-winged blackbirds, and from the pictures in the book, we must also have the Rusty blackbirds.  They look similar to crows, but are half the size, very similar to the red-winged blackbird in size and behavior.<br \/>\nSo, we probably don&#8217;t have any grackles.  Have I set the record straight?  I can&#8217;t remember which bird you objected to. *G*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cop Car, I made the time to browse through the &#8220;Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America&#8221; just now, and I&#8217;m really confused. We have large flocks of what we&#8217;ve always called black birds or starlings that visit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/birding-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}