{"id":17864,"date":"2016-07-07T07:05:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T14:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17864"},"modified":"2016-07-07T07:05:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T14:05:04","slug":"black-chinned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17864","title":{"rendered":"Black-chinned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>July has brought a hummingbird transition around my home. Earlier the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16927\">Rufous<\/a> dominated, now the Black-chinned\u00a0does.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The male Black-chinned Hummingbird has a distinctive black head, which depending upon the lighting might be edged with iridescent purple.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17868\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/blackchinnedhummingbird160705as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unlike the aptly named <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17679\">Rufous<\/a>, the Black-chinned has a greenish back and a black tail.\u00a0<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17866\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/blackchinnedhummingbird160705cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, the female Black-chinned Hummingbird is the real cutie as a result of its delightful penchant for spreading its tail feathers.\u00a0<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17870\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/blackchinnedhummingbird160705bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; July has brought a hummingbird transition around my home. Earlier the Rufous dominated, now the Black-chinned\u00a0does.\u00a0 The male Black-chinned Hummingbird has a distinctive black head, which depending upon the lighting might be edged with iridescent purple. Unlike the aptly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17864\">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-17864","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\/17864","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=17864"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17875,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17864\/revisions\/17875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}