{"id":10421,"date":"2014-05-03T07:03:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T14:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10421"},"modified":"2014-05-03T20:15:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T03:15:24","slug":"rufous-glow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10421","title":{"rendered":"Rufous glow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is an embarrassment of riches: having to choose whether May postings begin with grizzlies or hummingbirds.\u00a0<a title=\"Grizzly trail\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10415\">Grizzlies<\/a> won. Even though\u00a0hummingbirds had appeared on the last day of April,\u00a0I did not manage acceptable\u00a0pictures of them until May 2<sup>nd<\/sup>. Now we have the rufous.<\/p>\n<p>Who can fail to admire the Rufous Hummingbird? It is an amazingly beautiful and feisty little bird.<\/p>\n<p>A male Rufous Hummingbird with a glowing gorget perches on a branch.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10422\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/rufoushummingbird140502cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It flies off to sip nectar.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10424\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/rufoushummingbird140502s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many pictures are taken before one\u00a0is obtained that shows\u00a0the whole gorget glowing.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10423\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/rufoushummingbird140502bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It is an embarrassment of riches: having to choose whether May postings begin with grizzlies or hummingbirds.\u00a0Grizzlies won. Even though\u00a0hummingbirds had appeared on the last day of April,\u00a0I did not manage acceptable\u00a0pictures of them until May 2nd. Now we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10421\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10421"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10466,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10421\/revisions\/10466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}