{"id":7712,"date":"2013-05-13T19:09:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T02:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7712"},"modified":"2013-05-14T03:30:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T10:30:51","slug":"hummer-happenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7712","title":{"rendered":"Hummer happenings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This morning, I watched copulating hummingbirds. Unfortunately, there are no pictures&#8212;which is not a result of my lack of trying. Clearly, things are beginning to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Our region has an unusually high diversity of hummingbirds for Canada: three species and, sometimes, an accidental fourth. The Rufous Hummingbird is so frequent as to be almost ho-hum&#8212;despite\u00a0its considerable beauty. The other two hummingbirds are the Calliope and the Black-chinned. Other years, I have seen all three. Accidental\u00a0appearances\u00a0have been reported of Anna&#8217;s Hummingbird; yet, I have never seen one.<\/p>\n<p>In the spring, male hummingbirds arrive first. We have had male Rufous for some time, and now females are turning up. Today, I photographed my first male Black-chinned Hummingbird for the year; I assume females will arrive later this week. I have yet to see this year&#8217;s Calliopes.<\/p>\n<p>A female Rufous Hummingbird visited with a spider&#8217;s thead strung between its crown and bill tip. Hummers use these threads to glue their nests together; clearly, nest preparations are underway.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7715\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/rufoushummingbirdF130510s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A male Black-chinned Hummingbird has finally arrived.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7714\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/blackchinnedhummingbird130513s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The male Rufous Hummingbird continues to dominate the scene.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7713\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/rufoushummingbird130512s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This morning, I watched copulating hummingbirds. Unfortunately, there are no pictures&#8212;which is not a result of my lack of trying. Clearly, things are beginning to happen. Our region has an unusually high diversity of hummingbirds for Canada: three species &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7712\">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-7712","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\/7712","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=7712"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7726,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712\/revisions\/7726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}