{"id":158308,"date":"2015-04-21T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=96fbe4b251cf488e6e451750467347dc"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:59:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:59:35","slug":"the-first-real-day-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/the-first-real-day-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Real Day of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing signals the start of spring to me — when the white-throated sparrows start to sing.<\/p>\n

So, according to me, spring started this past Wednesday when I heard the first one right outside my window.<\/p>\n

Today they were singing all over Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

The song is distinctive and once you know what it is you will easily pick it out above the city noise.<\/p>\n

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One of Brooklyn’s white-throated sparrows, Zonotrichia albicollis. Click to enlarge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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One thing signals the start of spring to me — when the white-throated sparrows start to sing. So, according to me, spring started this past Wednesday when I heard the first one right outside my window. Today they were singing all over Brooklyn. The song is distinctive and once you know what it is you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2196012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-YV8vFF6j34A\/UaJ8Zi8WxWI\/AAAAAAAABQg\/8HYsPwIwV7g\/s1600\/DSC_0033.JPG","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[3172,2450,2648,2649],"class_list":["post-158308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-brooklyn","tag-julie-feinstein","tag-white-throated-sparrow","tag-zonotrichia-albicollis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}