{"id":1756,"date":"2011-05-21T20:09:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T03:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2011-05-22T07:43:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T14:43:34","slug":"see-males-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1756","title":{"rendered":"See males now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am told that the only hummingbirds one is likely to see in the West Kootenay are the Rufous, Calliope, and Black\u2013chinned, and they appear in that order of likelihood.<\/p>\n<p>I am also told that while female hummingbirds can be seen throughout the summer, by late June the males have finished breeding and have headed higher in the mountains.<\/p>\n<p>So, if one wants to see the distinctive adult male hummingbirds, the time is now\u2014wait awhile and they are gone. A week ago, this blog showed a picture of the <a title=\"Hummingbirds in May\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1675\">male Calliope Hummingbird<\/a>. Today, I managed to photographed the male Rufous and the male Black-chinned.<\/p>\n<p>A male Black\u2013chinned Hummingbird<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1757\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/blackchinned110521s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A male Rufous Hummingbird<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1758\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/rufousM105021s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am told that the only hummingbirds one is likely to see in the West Kootenay are the Rufous, Calliope, and Black\u2013chinned, and they appear in that order of likelihood. I am also told that while female hummingbirds can be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1756\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-1756","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\/1756","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=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}