{"id":4733,"date":"2023-07-23T14:12:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T14:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/f8explorer.com\/?p=4733"},"modified":"2023-07-23T14:27:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T14:27:33","slug":"hummingbird-finally-got-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/f8explorer.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/23\/hummingbird-finally-got-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Hummingbird &#8230; Finally got him!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/f8explorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DSC_0533-4.jpg?resize=1024%2C683\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/f8explorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DSC_0533-4.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/f8explorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DSC_0533-4.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/f8explorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DSC_0533-4.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/f8explorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DSC_0533-4.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/f8explorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DSC_0533-4.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/f8explorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DSC_0533-4.jpg?resize=70%2C47&amp;ssl=1 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A male ruby-throated hummingbird seeks nectar within a Persian silk tree, aka. a Mimosa tree, in Staunton, Va., on July 22, 2023. <\/em><br><br><em>(Photo by Mike Tripp\/F8 Explorer) <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Photographer&#8217;s Note:<\/strong> It took me two days and about three hours total of sitting and waiting for him (or one of the others) to finally visit this tree so I could capture these images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Normally, we have move of them flying around at this point, but neighbors have cut away many of their flowering bushes that the hummers visiting historically like + we had to remove our two butterfly bushes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As our rose gardens returns to blooming again in the next week or two, I&#8217;ve a feeling they will be back flying around our own Whispering Grove.<\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer&#8217;s Note: It took me two days and about three hours total of sitting and waiting for him (or one of the others) to finally visit this tree so I could capture these images. Normally, we have move of them flying around at this point, but neighbors have cut away many of their flowering bushes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,67,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","category-photographer-notes","category-scenics"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/f8explorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DSC_0533-4.jpg?fit=2423%2C1615&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/f8explorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/f8explorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/f8explorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f8explorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f8explorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4733"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/f8explorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4759,"href":"https:\/\/f8explorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions\/4759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f8explorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/f8explorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f8explorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f8explorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}