{"id":802,"date":"2005-08-19T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-19T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2005-08-19T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-19T19:28:00","slug":"young-hummers-all-look-alike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/young-hummers-all-look-alike\/","title":{"rendered":"Young hummers all look alike"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can anyone be expected to know the details of a bird that’s only 3.75″ long?! I’m struggling to identify the plummage of a Ruby-throated Hummingbird that’s been visiting every morning. It seems to be a juvenile — an adult male<\/a> would have the signature red throat; an adult female<\/a> would have white tips on the end of the tail. I don’t get to see many hummingbirds so I’m at a loss whether this bird is a young male or female. What do you think?<\/p>\n

Whatever he\/she turns out to be, it’s a very welcome guest. I’ve been sitting out front while I journal in the mornings and I’ve enjoyed watching this little bird at the feeder while the larger birds are having breakfast in the backyard. Even though I have a lot of trumpet vine, my yard just doesn’t attract hummingbirds until August. I think that’s when the juveniles are being forced to find their own territory as the hummingbirds significantly increase their nectar consumption in preparation for migration. So, for about three weeks every year, I’m privileged to have one visit my yard.<\/p>\n

It’s been hot, with temperatures nearing 100 and birding has been slow. I have the misters and drippers going in the backyard and the regular backyard birds enjoy flying through the mist and splashing in the birdbath (have you ever seen a starling that didn’t play in water?!) on these hot days. A robin <\/a>was in the yard this morning; don’t know where he’s been but definitely not around here lately. And several newly fledged Mourning<\/a> and Eurasian Collared<\/a> Doves were feeding beneath BirdCam#1<\/a> today.<\/p>\n

Have a wonderful weekend!<\/p>\n

Pat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How can anyone be expected to know the details of a bird that’s only 3.75″ long?! I’m struggling to identify the plummage of a Ruby-throated Hummingbird that’s been visiting every morning. It seems to be a juvenile — an adult male would have the signature red throat; an adult female would have white tips on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}