{"id":2210,"date":"2012-05-13T23:46:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T06:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2012-05-13T23:46:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T06:46:12","slug":"mothers-day-hummingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2210","title":{"rendered":"Mother&#8217;s Day Hummingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To all the moms out there, Happy Mother&#8217;s Day!<\/p>\n<p>As this is one of their busier days of the year, I headed to <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a> and helped out on the trails this afternoon. With the wonderful weather there was no shortage of visitors. New arrivals since my last visit were some Black-headed Grosbeak along the east dyke trail and three Wilson&#8217;s Phalarope amongst the Dowitchers in the outer ponds. Lots of ducklings and goslings showing up now as well.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest attractions today were the Hummingbird feeders. All were being visited frequently including one located in a tree at the picnic area.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2211\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2211\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2211\" title=\"Rufous Hummingbird\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RUHU057.jpg\" alt=\"Rufous Hummingbird\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RUHU057.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RUHU057-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RUHU057-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RUHU057-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rufous Hummingbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The nice thing about this one if you were patient,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2212\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2212\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2212\" title=\"Rufous Hummingbird\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RUHU060.jpg\" alt=\"Rufous Hummingbird\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RUHU060.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RUHU060-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RUHU060-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RUHU060-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rufous Hummingbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; is that you could get them when they alighted briefly on the branches.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2213\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2213\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2213\" title=\"Rufous Hummingbird\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RUHU061.jpg\" alt=\"Rufous Hummingbird\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RUHU061.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RUHU061-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RUHU061-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RUHU061-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rufous Hummingbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I managed a couple of shots while taking a break from the trails and enjoyed them along with everyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To all the moms out there, Happy Mother&#8217;s Day! As this is one of their busier days of the year, I headed to Reifel and helped out on the trails this afternoon. With the wonderful weather there was no shortage of visitors. New arrivals since my last visit were some Black-headed Grosbeak along the east &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2210\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mother&#8217;s Day Hummingbird&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-rufous-hummingbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2215,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions\/2215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}