{"id":35559,"date":"2026-05-14T14:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35559"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:32:06","slug":"male-black-chinned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35559","title":{"rendered":"Male Black-chinned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, I posted a male Rufous Hummingbird (https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35547). Since then, I have occasionally been visited by a male Black-chinned Hummingbird.<\/p>\n<p>Often, its gorget appears black and this hummer is just back and white. But when it turns the right way it shows a iridescent purple fringe on its neck. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35561\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/blackchinhummingbird260513s3.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"638\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A few days ago, I posted a male Rufous Hummingbird (https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35547). Since then, I have occasionally been visited by a male Black-chinned Hummingbird. Often, its gorget appears black and this hummer is just back and white. But when it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35559\">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-35559","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\/35559","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=35559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35562,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35559\/revisions\/35562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}