{"id":9301,"date":"2024-02-14T11:51:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/?p=9301"},"modified":"2024-02-14T11:51:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:51:09","slug":"ruby-throated-hummingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/archives\/9301","title":{"rendered":"Ruby Throated Hummingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/skennard_060805_4050.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/skennard_060805_4050.jpg\" alt=\"A small bird is hovering in front of a green yew bush, with its wings moving so fast they are almost blurred. Landing gear (feet) is down and his long bill is aiming up to the right. He has a brilliant red throat and pale mottled chest with irridescent green feathers.\" class=\"wp-image-9300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/skennard_060805_4050.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/skennard_060805_4050-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/skennard_060805_4050-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/skennard_060805_4050-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/skennard_060805_4050-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/skennard_060805_4050-690x460.jpg 690w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/skennard_060805_4050-980x653.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hummingbird about to Land on a Yew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We had observed this little bird hanging out on the yew tree outside for some time. I set up the camera and flash close to the bush with the radio remote control inside the house and waited for him to appear. It was a picture of patience as the other 93 taken will attest! Happy Wildlife Wednesday friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is on my <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/skgallery\/animals\">Animals Gallery<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had observed this little bird hanging out on the yew tree outside for some time. I set up the camera and flash close to the bush with the radio remote control inside the house and waited for him to appear. It was a picture of patience as the other 93 taken will attest! Happy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":9300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,371,15],"tags":[373,374,372,375,334,138],"class_list":["post-9301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals","category-birds","category-photos","tag-birds","tag-birdsofmastodon","tag-hummingbird","tag-persistence","tag-stevenkposts","tag-wildlifewednesday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/skennard_060805_4050.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9303,"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301\/revisions\/9303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}