{"id":1417,"date":"2021-05-06T21:24:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T02:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2021-05-06T21:26:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T02:26:38","slug":"season-for-first-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=1417","title":{"rendered":"Season for First-of-Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s always exciting to see the first bird of the year of a given species. This time of year that&#8217;s apt to happen more than once a day if you go out birding. Today we had our first-of-year northern oriole (for Massachusetts; there was one in our yard in Casco last Tuesday), catbird, and rose breasted grosbeak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rose_breasted_grosbeak.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1418\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rose_breasted_grosbeak.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1418\" class=\"wp-image-1418\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rose_breasted_grosbeak.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rose_breasted_grosbeak-360x300.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/northern_oriole.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1419\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/northern_oriole.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1419\" class=\"wp-image-1419\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/northern_oriole.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/northern_oriole-360x300.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/catbird_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1420\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/catbird_sm.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1420\" class=\"wp-image-1420\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/catbird_sm.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/catbird_sm-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The grosbeak is the most exciting, I think, because there have been many years when we didn&#8217;t see any of them. We saw a lot of them last year on our walks around Nahanton Park and were hoping we had learned how to find them. Maybe we have!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday we saw a black-and-white warbler, yellow-rumped warbler, and yellow warbler and got good long looks at palm warblers. Today was less good for warblers, but I did get a (not awfully good) picture of a yellow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/yellow_warbler.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1421\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/yellow_warbler.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/yellow_warbler-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; and this house wren looks very much as though he wishes I hadn&#8217;t seen him:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/house_wren.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1422\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/house_wren.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/house_wren-400x280.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The grandkids were at our house for about an hour after school today. We picked them up at school and took them to their house first. While Maija attended a food science class over the computer, we were keeping Ari busy in their backyard with riding toys and a kids play tent that we just barely got set up before Maija&#8217;s class was over and it was time to go back to our house. Ari found &#8220;Flight of the Jacquins&#8221;, a board game about characters from the Disney series Elena of Avalor that we had played before the pandemic. We set it up and he and I played it, not necessarily according to the rules. It&#8217;s a case of &#8220;oh yes, I remember that we had that toy, let&#8217;s use it for five minutes and see what else is here that I haven&#8217;t thought about in a year.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always exciting to see the first bird of the year of a given species. This time of year that&#8217;s apt to happen more than once a day if you go out birding. Today we had our first-of-year northern oriole (for Massachusetts; there was one in our yard in Casco last Tuesday), catbird, and rose &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=1417\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Season for First-of-Year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,13,11],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birding","tag-oonbh-walks","tag-pandemic-year","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1424,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/1424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}