{"id":35547,"date":"2026-05-06T16:48:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35547"},"modified":"2026-05-06T16:48:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:48:48","slug":"rufous-male","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35547","title":{"rendered":"Rufous male"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have been watching for the other hummingbirds that we have had in the past. Alas, nothing but the Rufous Hummingbird photographed so far.<\/p>\n<p>But, to my surprise, today I got a nice shot of the rufous male. Its gorget is glowing, its tail is spread, and (a first) its beak is also spread. All of this is against a dark background. So, I am posting it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35548\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/rufoushummingbirdm260506s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I have been watching for the other hummingbirds that we have had in the past. Alas, nothing but the Rufous Hummingbird photographed so far. But, to my surprise, today I got a nice shot of the rufous male. Its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35547\">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-35547","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\/35547","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=35547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35549,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35547\/revisions\/35549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}