{"id":7688,"date":"2020-09-10T17:39:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T22:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/?p=7688"},"modified":"2020-09-10T17:39:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T22:39:08","slug":"autumn-migrants-arriving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/2020\/09\/10\/autumn-migrants-arriving\/","title":{"rendered":"autumn migrants Arriving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In recent weeks, we had migrating birds arriving with the hurricane and with the latest weather fronts. I wasn’t getting out of the house to photograph until I saw a good concentration of hummingbirds Monday on the Fire Bush plants at my son’s house. Tuesday and Wednesday mornings I was there for the action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following images were made without artificial lighting or any special setup. The bushes were covered in red blooms which made it difficult to isolate birds in flight. Instead, I focused a cluster of blooms with a clean background and pushed the shutter button as birds came to feed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a small collection of hummers from September 8 and 9:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ruby-throated Hummingbird female feeding at Fire Bush in s. Texas garden.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird male.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird male at Fire Bush flowers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird male feeding at Fire Bush, s. Texas gardern.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird, subadult female, autumn, s. Texas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Subadult Rufous Hummingbird, s. Texas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If my identification is correct, this is the first Rufous Hummingbird I’ve been able to photograph in the lower Rio Grande area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I plan to post again in the next day or two with a few deer and turkey shots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

In recent weeks, we had migrating birds arriving with the hurricane and with the latest weather fronts. I wasn’t getting out of the house to photograph until I saw a good concentration of hummingbirds Monday on the Fire Bush plants at my son’s house. Tuesday and Wednesday mornings I was there for the action. The … Continue reading autumn migrants Arriving<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7695,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions\/7695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}