{"id":12087,"date":"2014-09-26T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=12087"},"modified":"2014-09-14T09:09:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T17:09:28","slug":"from-the-augustseptember-zephyr-hummingbirds-in-war-peaceby-jim-stiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/26\/from-the-augustseptember-zephyr-hummingbirds-in-war-peaceby-jim-stiles\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the August\/September Zephyr) HUMMINGBIRDS in WAR &#038; PEACE\u2026by Jim Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s late July and the Rufous Hummers are back. Feisty little devils, they are. Ready to pick a fight, just to have something to do. I sit on my porch swing in the early evening and watch the aerobatics, the war for the skies. It\u2019s like standing on a burnt out London street, seeing the RAF take on the Luftwaffe. In this case, however, I can\u2019t tell who\u2019s on which side\u2026it appears to be a free-for-all.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They\u2019ve been bombarding me with their yearly visits for more than 25 years. I\u2019m looking at genealogy here\u2026a family history, as successive generations of hummingbirds make their way from Central America, to southeast Utah, to San Juan County, to my humble little cabin and the bright red feeders that make the visit worthwhile. I don\u2019t think they come here for my sparkling personality and rapier wit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Jim&#8217;s article, and see more photos of the hummingbirds, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/08\/03\/hummingbirds-in-war-peace-by-jim-stiles\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12088 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/hummer8.jpg\" alt=\"hummer8\" width=\"501\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/hummer8.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/hummer8-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/08\/03\/hummingbirds-in-war-peace-by-jim-stiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/08\/03\/hummingbirds-in-war-peace-by-jim-stiles\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: It\u2019s late July and the Rufous Hummers are back. Feisty little devils, they are. Ready to pick a fight, just to have something to do. I sit on my porch swing in the early evening and watch the aerobatics, the war for the skies. It\u2019s like standing on a burnt out London street, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12089,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12087\/revisions\/12089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}