{"id":14341,"date":"2015-07-21T07:31:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T14:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14341"},"modified":"2015-07-21T10:27:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T17:27:05","slug":"third-hummer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14341","title":{"rendered":"Third hummer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chalk it up to inattention. I know that we regularly get three hummingbird species during the warmer months: Calliope, Rufous, Black-chinned. Yet, I don&#8217;t think that I have ever noticed seeing all three\u00a0in a single year. This year I have: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1675\">Calliope<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13499\">Rufous<\/a>, (and other postings) and lately a Black-chinned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I saw a Black-chinned male this last\u00a0week, but failed to get\u00a0a picture, so this link is to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8169\">one from a previous year<\/a>. However, I have been getting regular visits from a Black-chinned female.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unlike males, female hummingbirds are not easy to distinguish. A good view of a spread tail can prove diagnostic, but it only happens occasionally. This female Black-chinned presents a typically uninformative view.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14342\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/blackchinhummingbirdF150720cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a fleeting view of a spread tail. On the female Black-chinned Hummingbird, the\u00a0black band on the tail is broken by central green feathers. On a Calliope or Rufous it is continuous.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14344\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/blackchinhummingbirdF150720as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A female Rufous Hummingbird visited about the same time. Even this side view shows the continuous black band.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14343\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/rufoushummingbird150720as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Chalk it up to inattention. I know that we regularly get three hummingbird species during the warmer months: Calliope, Rufous, Black-chinned. Yet, I don&#8217;t think that I have ever noticed seeing all three\u00a0in a single year. This year I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14341\">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-14341","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\/14341","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=14341"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14375,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14341\/revisions\/14375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}