{"id":33325,"date":"2024-05-21T14:50:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T21:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33325"},"modified":"2024-05-21T18:45:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T01:45:53","slug":"hummingbirds-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33325","title":{"rendered":"Hummingbirds, plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hummingbirds have been seen recently around the region. I have seen a female Rufous Hummingbird for about a week. And of late, a male Black-chinned Hummingbird has arrived.<\/p>\n<p>During the hummingbird season, we get three different species: rufous, black-chinned, and calliope. Well, on rare occasions there has been seen a fourth: the Anna&#8217;s. The latter is seen at the Coast and in 2017 was made Vancouver&#8217;s official bird, but it is exceeding rare here. So we can count on seeing three species here, but as the sexes differ, <span class=\"eg\" role=\"text\"><span class=\"ex\">there are six forms. I have yet to spot all six in one season.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, while watching the black-chinned, a different visitor stopped by.<\/p>\n<p>A female Rufous Hummingbird flies by.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33328\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/rufoushummingbird230515S.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a few days, a male Black-chinned Hummingbird frequently appeared and on one occasion it flashed its iridescent purple gorget.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33327\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/blackchinnedhummingbird240519s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While I was watching the black-chinned, a juvenile raccoon came around and begged.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33326\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/raccoon240519s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hummingbirds have been seen recently around the region. I have seen a female Rufous Hummingbird for about a week. And of late, a male Black-chinned Hummingbird has arrived. During the hummingbird season, we get three different species: rufous, black-chinned, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33325\">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":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33325","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=33325"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33336,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33325\/revisions\/33336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}