{"id":7744,"date":"2021-01-09T11:52:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T16:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flgcc.com\/?p=7744"},"modified":"2026-01-26T07:30:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:30:44","slug":"black-chinned-hummingbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/09\/black-chinned-hummingbirds\/florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Black-chinned Hummingbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The other day I posted about seeing several birds this season that are very uncommon in Florida. Black-chinned hummingbirds are typically found in the western states, most often across the rocky mountain region. While most migrate to western Mexico, there have been sightings across the gulf coast in recent years. We were fortunate to see two feeding on an orchid tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210104-4-black-chinned-hummingbird-perched-on-hanging-limb.jpg\" alt=\"Black Chinned Hummingbird Perched On Hanging Limb\" class=\"wp-image-99069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210104-4-black-chinned-hummingbird-perched-on-hanging-limb.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210104-4-black-chinned-hummingbird-perched-on-hanging-limb-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210104-4-black-chinned-hummingbird-perched-on-hanging-limb-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210104-4-black-chinned-hummingbird-perched-on-hanging-limb-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210104-4-black-chinned-hummingbird-perched-on-hanging-limb-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210104-4-black-chinned-hummingbird-perched-on-hanging-limb-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Black-chinned Hummingbird Perched on a Hanging Limb<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>A few more pictures from this journey are featured below. For a larger selection of photos, go to the galleries listed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/gary-walker-photography\/galleries\/nature\/birds\/hummingbirds\/\">Hummingbirds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I posted about seeing several birds this season that are very uncommon in Florida. Black-chinned hummingbirds are typically found in the western states, most often across the rocky mountain region. While most migrate to western Mexico, there have been sightings across the gulf coast in recent years. We were fortunate to see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2743],"tags":[2774],"class_list":["post-7744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-florida","tag-nature"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210104-4-black-chinned-hummingbird-resting-on-thorny-branch.jpg?ver","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109085,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions\/109085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}