{"id":20683,"date":"2012-09-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=314ad2b49974b9099042b27ad402c8e0"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:30:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:30:13","slug":"ruby-throated-hummingbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/ruby-throated-hummingbirds\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruby-throated Hummingbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruby-throated hummingbirds, not Black-chinned guys. Kind of happy these little friends decided to show up and pose for some photos. The males were a bit obnoxious and rather mean to each other, wrestling on the ground and knocking each other off branches.<\/p>\n

Feisty guys. Ah hah!! I got one to land on my finger, which is always exciting. You should try it sometime. (along those lines, a Bewick’s Wren landed on my clipboard briefly last month too. Damn skippy.)<\/p>\n

In other news, I’ve been in south Texas running around after Black-capped Vireos at a real nice field site. Still a ton of BCVIs around but otherwise not much going on bird-wise. Oh! finally saw Montezuma Quail! which was pretty sweet.<\/p>\n

Not a lot down in the Hill Country. Also saw my fourth Texas Indigo snake, this one was 6+ feet long and absolutely beautiful. He was looking for food in a small water trough and while I didn’t pick him up, I did pull him out a little bit. Didn’t realize how huge he was until he was on the ground, really an awesome snake.<\/p>\n

Love those guys (they’re threatened, by the way, which is a huge bummer).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Ruby-throated hummingbirds, not Black-chinned guys. Kind of happy these little friends decided to show up and pose for some photos. The males were a bit obnoxious and rather mean to each other, wrestling on the ground and knocking each other off branches. Feisty guys. Ah hah!! I got one to land on my finger, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":2145570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1207],"class_list":["post-20683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-ruby-throated-hummingbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}