{"id":968,"date":"2014-08-10T10:18:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T17:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/?p=968"},"modified":"2014-08-10T10:18:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T17:18:26","slug":"female-rufous-hummingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/10\/female-rufous-hummingbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Rufous Hummingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Female Rufous Hummingbird<\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_969\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-969\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/female_rufousIMG_8828-Edit-120140810female_rufous20140810.jpg\" alt=\"female rufous hummingbird\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-969\" srcset=\"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/female_rufousIMG_8828-Edit-120140810female_rufous20140810.jpg 600w, http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/female_rufousIMG_8828-Edit-120140810female_rufous20140810-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Female rufous hummingbird at a feeder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Early August finds many hummingbirds migrating through Albuquerque. While most seem to prefer flowers to feeders, when there are so many present at one time and in the midst of the drought, they also seem happy to have feeders available.<\/p>\n<p>Nectar is easily made by combining 1 part sugar with 4 parts water, heating to a boil, then allowing to cool. Feeders should be changed every day or two to keep the nectar fresh.<\/p>\n<p>This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/birds.audubon.org\/birds\/rufous-hummingbird\" title=\"audubon guide to rufous hummingbirds\">Audubon Guide to Rufous Hummingbirds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/rufous_hummingbird\/id\" title=\"cornell guide to rufous hummingbirds\">Cornell Lab of Ornithology&#8217;s Guide to Rufous Hummingbirds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like fcbkbttn_large_button\"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/10\/female-rufous-hummingbird\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"large\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/10\/female-rufous-hummingbird\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female Rufous Hummingbird Early August finds many hummingbirds migrating through Albuquerque. While most seem to prefer flowers to feeders, when there are so many present at one time and in the midst of the drought, they also seem happy to have feeders available. Nectar is easily made by combining 1 part sugar with 4 parts &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/10\/female-rufous-hummingbird\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Female Rufous Hummingbird&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[144,145,1],"tags":[352,147,148,146],"series":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hummingbirds","category-rufous-hummingbird","category-uncategorized","tag-birds","tag-hummingbirds-2","tag-migratory-birds","tag-rufous-hummingbirds"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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