{"id":1765,"date":"2013-04-16T19:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T00:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2013-04-16T19:05:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T00:05:25","slug":"hummingbird-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=1765","title":{"rendered":"Hummingbird madness"},"content":{"rendered":"

The hummingbirds have been particularly active since the arrived the end of March. First only one zoomed around the feeder and the sparsely blooming flowers gratefully refueling from it’s long voyage. And then suddenly we had four! They always seem so busy and active, madly flitting around, visiting flowers, and fighting over the coveted hummingbird feeder supremacy. \"DSCN0972\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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It took some serious patience getting these shots, since the lighting was really poor and hummingbirds move so darned fast! One has to be fast on that trigger finger! But I finally did get some – shoddy first timer work, but at least you can see it’s a hummingbird!! \ud83d\ude00\"DSCN0924\"<\/a>\"DSCN0983\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here are some shots of the fighting that seems to go on all day long.\u00a0 One hummingbird might be hanging out peacefully feeding……. \"DSCN1135\"<\/a>….and another one will zoom right up out of nowhere with a loud twittering sound and chase the Mr Peaceful away. I apologize for the crappy photo.\"DSCN1127\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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A standoff!\"DSCN1176\"<\/a>And then other times they are just fine sharing the sweet bounty. Go figure..\"DSCN1179\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Catching hummingbirds sipping from the Texas Betony was particularly challenging. Unfortunately this is the best this novice photographer could muster up. Can you spot the hummingbird below?\"DSCN1001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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A cool closeup! Yippee!\"DSCN1003\"<\/a>\"DSCN1010\"<\/a>Ahh, I love those fierce little fliers.\u00a0 And they are certainly helping me practice my photography skills!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The hummingbirds have been particularly active since the arrived the end of March. First only one zoomed around the feeder and the sparsely blooming flowers gratefully refueling from it’s long voyage. And then suddenly we had four! They always seem … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}