{"id":34515,"date":"2025-05-15T17:07:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T00:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34515"},"modified":"2025-05-16T01:04:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T08:04:27","slug":"three-hummingbird-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34515","title":{"rendered":"Three hummingbird species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned earlier (blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34474) that we get three hummingbirds: rufous, black-chinned and calliope. In the last few days I have seen males of each of these birds. They migrate here before the females do.<\/p>\n<p>The gorget (throat) of many hummingbirds is iridescent: sometimes it is black, sometimes it displays colours.<\/p>\n<p>The rufous, with its sometime orange gorget, was first to arrive.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34516\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/rufoushummingbird250513s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The black-chinned with its sometime purple gorget has been here for about three days.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34517\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/blackchinnedhummingbird250514s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>North America&#8217;s smallest bird, the calliope has been here a couple of days.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34518\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/calliopehummingbird250513s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I mentioned earlier (blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34474) that we get three hummingbirds: rufous, black-chinned and calliope. In the last few days I have seen males of each of these birds. They migrate here before the females do. The gorget (throat) of many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34515\">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-34515","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\/34515","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=34515"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34522,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34515\/revisions\/34522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}