{"id":27673,"date":"2019-11-10T14:54:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T22:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27673"},"modified":"2019-11-11T02:41:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T10:41:57","slug":"accidental-annas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27673","title":{"rendered":"Accidental Anna&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An accidental bird is one that turns up well outside its normal range. Also known as a wanderer, it just doesn&#8217;t fit the local phenology.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I twice saw an accidental Anna&#8217;s Hummingbird. Each observation was remarkably fleeting, and my pictures of it have the quality of things I normally delete. But, it was an Anna&#8217;s and so I show them. Also shown is a really fine shot by the person who alerted me to the bird&#8217;s occasional visits to a home feeder.<\/p>\n<p>People at the (Pacific) Coast often see an Anna&#8217;s Hummingbird. As these birds do not migrate, they are present year round. But, they are far from normal here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Anna&#8217;s Hummingbird landed on a branch and promptly lifted off again.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27674\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/annashummingbird191110as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It flew past me and then left.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/annashummingbird191110bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27679\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It turned up a day or so earlier and my host managed a superb shot of it.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27675\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/annashummingbird191110cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">The final picture is used with permission.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; An accidental bird is one that turns up well outside its normal range. Also known as a wanderer, it just doesn&#8217;t fit the local phenology. Today, I twice saw an accidental Anna&#8217;s Hummingbird. Each observation was remarkably fleeting, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27673\">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-27673","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\/27673","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=27673"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27688,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27673\/revisions\/27688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}