{"id":23466,"date":"2018-05-11T18:30:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T01:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23466"},"modified":"2018-05-11T18:30:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T01:30:59","slug":"humdinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23466","title":{"rendered":"Humdinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We get three species of hummingbirds around the Lake: Calliope, Rufous, and Black-chinned. Well, really occasionally, the Anna&#8217;s has been seen, but not by me.<\/p>\n<p>Some years I have seen only one of the species, sometimes two, and now and then there will be a summer when I see all three. Amazingly, in an hour this morning, I saw all three species. The morning offered a humdinger of hummingbirds.<\/p>\n<p>The Rufous Hummingbird is the scrappiest and most likely to be seen.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23467\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/rufoushummingbird180510as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Calliope Hummingbird is the smallest and next most common.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23468\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/calliopehummingbird180510as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Black-chinned Hummingbird is the least likely to be seen.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23469\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/blackchinhummingbird180511as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We get three species of hummingbirds around the Lake: Calliope, Rufous, and Black-chinned. Well, really occasionally, the Anna&#8217;s has been seen, but not by me. Some years I have seen only one of the species, sometimes two, and now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23466\">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-23466","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\/23466","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=23466"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23475,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23466\/revisions\/23475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}