{"id":30871,"date":"2021-07-15T11:52:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T18:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30871"},"modified":"2021-07-15T11:52:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T18:52:50","slug":"julys-hummers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30871","title":{"rendered":"July&#8217;s hummers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our three regular hummingbirds arrive in April to breed. First males come, soon followed by females. The three species are Rufous, Calliope, and Black-chinned. I have not seen a Calliope since early May (although others have) so I only show the other two.<\/p>\n<p>Rufous males don\u2019t stick around after breeding and begin their migration to western Mexico by early July. So the males are gone. The females stick around for only another few weeks, and are then followed by juveniles in August. It is now mid July and we are still being visited by Rufous females, one of which stopped by a few times this week.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30874\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/rufoushummingbird210714s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Black-chinned female is the most frequent visitor. She may be tending a nest, but seems more or less unconcerned by an adjacent human clicking a camera.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30875\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/blackchinnedhummingbirHd210713bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, a male Black-chinned comes by. He is distinctly skittish. If the watching human so much as twitches, he is off. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30873\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/blackchinnedhummingbird210714bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The infrequency of the male\u2019s visits made it difficult to obtain a shot of him flashing his purple gorget. Here is one attempt. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30872\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/blackchinnedhummingbird210714as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Our three regular hummingbirds arrive in April to breed. First males come, soon followed by females. The three species are Rufous, Calliope, and Black-chinned. I have not seen a Calliope since early May (although others have) so I only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30871\">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-30871","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\/30871","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=30871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30877,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30871\/revisions\/30877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}