{"id":7559,"date":"2013-04-28T17:24:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T00:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7559"},"modified":"2013-04-28T20:42:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T03:42:39","slug":"rufous-iridescence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7559","title":{"rendered":"Rufous iridescence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I photographed my first Rufous Hummingbird of 2013 this morning. It was a male&#8212;the sex which has the strikingly iridescent gorget. I attach three pictures of this visitor.<\/p>\n<p>The gorget of a hummingbird owes its colour to iridescence. As such, the colour depends greatly on the direction of the light source and the viewing angle. Here, the gorget looks dark brown.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7561\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rufous130428bs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Six seconds later, this bird turned his head. There is a striking transformation in the appearance of its gorget.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7560\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rufous130428cs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>About 15 seconds later, the bird stared into the camera allowing a portrait.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7562\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rufous130428as.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I photographed my first Rufous Hummingbird of 2013 this morning. It was a male&#8212;the sex which has the strikingly iridescent gorget. I attach three pictures of this visitor. The gorget of a hummingbird owes its colour to iridescence. As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7559\">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-7559","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\/7559","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=7559"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7566,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7559\/revisions\/7566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}