{"id":8669,"date":"2014-05-31T04:14:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T11:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=8669"},"modified":"2014-05-29T17:23:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T00:23:16","slug":"are-your-hummingbirds-shy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/31\/are-your-hummingbirds-shy\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Your Hummingbirds Shy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Ruby-throated Hummingbird by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/7833218532\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Ruby-throated Hummingbird\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8284\/7833218532_3db175aa49_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The past week or so has seen the annual online panic about the perceived lateness or scarcity of\u00a0<strong>ruby-throated hummingbirds\u00a0<\/strong>on their North American breeding grounds. If your favorite trochilid hasn&#8217;t &#8220;returned&#8221; to your feeders yet, you might take the advice of <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/mem\/archive-free\/pdf?res=F60911F93A5813738DDDAB0994D9415B838DF1D3\">Althea R. Sherman, who in 1913 reported<\/a> on<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>her experiment in feeding humming birds in an effort to get them to nest near her house. The birds were first tempted with a flower of oil cloth, gaily painted and containing a little vial of sweetened water. The same birds [!] have been coming back [!] year after year [!] since the beginning of the experiment&#8230;. The sugar syrup is now placed without concealment in bottles and the birds come for it with delight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m busy manufacturing oilcloth flowers, which I expect to sell for, oh, say, $150 each.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ruby-throated Hummingbird by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/7354563382\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Ruby-throated Hummingbird\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8022\/7354563382_538e6faa7b_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past week or so has seen the annual online panic about the perceived lateness or scarcity of\u00a0ruby-throated hummingbirds\u00a0on their North American breeding grounds. If your favorite trochilid hasn&#8217;t &#8220;returned&#8221; to your feeders yet, you might take the advice of Althea R. Sherman, who in 1913 reported on her experiment in feeding humming birds in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/31\/are-your-hummingbirds-shy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are Your Hummingbirds Shy?&#8221;<\/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":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8670,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669\/revisions\/8670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}