{"id":5299,"date":"2012-05-25T01:53:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T08:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5299"},"modified":"2012-05-25T02:07:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T09:07:34","slug":"two-flying-foys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5299","title":{"rendered":"Two flying FOYs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A short time ago, I encountered the\u00a0birder&#8217;s term, FOY, and didn&#8217;t have a clue what it meant. It refers to the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">F<\/span>irst (observation of a particular species) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">O<\/span>f that\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Y<\/span>ear. Many birds have an annual variation, coming and going at roughly the same time each year. A birdwatcher notes these events in the same way that a weather enthusiast appreciates the first steam fog on the Lake in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I saw two FOYs. Others have spotted these birds already, but each was my first of the year.<\/p>\n<p>I have been visited by the\u00a0<a title=\"Rufous Hummingbird\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5188\">Rufous Hummingbird<\/a>\u00a0for a few weeks now, but this was the first Black-chinned Hummingbird to drop by. This male is showing flashes of iridescent purple on its\u00a0gorget.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5300\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/blackchinnedhummingbird120524s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bank Swallows are back. This appears to be a mating couple, but was it really necessary for the departing bird to kick all that dirt at the one left in the nest?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5314\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bankswallow120524as3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A short time ago, I encountered the\u00a0birder&#8217;s term, FOY, and didn&#8217;t have a clue what it meant. It refers to the\u00a0First (observation of a particular species) Of that\u00a0Year. Many birds have an annual variation, coming and going at roughly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5299\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-5299","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\/5299","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=5299"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5318,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions\/5318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}