{"id":10002,"date":"2024-09-14T15:43:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T22:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=10002"},"modified":"2024-09-14T15:43:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T22:43:46","slug":"chatfield-state-park-june-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/14\/chatfield-state-park-june-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatfield State Park — June 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In late June, we headed to Chatfield State Park for a birding and raptor monitoring trip. While there, I found this Broad-Tailed Hummingbird close to the Platte River at Kingfisher Bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Broad-Tailed Hummingbird, Chatfield, No 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This bird allowed me to get really close as he left his perch and returned several times.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Broad-Tailed Hummingbird, Chatfield, No 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The Broad-Tailed Hummingbird has a very distinctive throat that glows a bright metallic red if the sunlight reflects at just the right angle.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Broad-Tailed Hummingbird, Chatfield, No 3.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This bird then went through the motions of flapping his wings several times without leaving his perch.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Broad-Tailed Hummingbird, Chatfield, No 4.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This allowed me to capture several images… without have to find him again! <\/p>\n\n\n

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Broad-Tailed Hummingbird, Chatfield, No 5.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Here is the last image just before I left this location.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Broad-Tailed Hummingbird, Chatfield, No 6.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Time to play catch-up again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In late June, we headed to Chatfield State Park for a birding and raptor monitoring trip. While there, I found this Broad-Tailed Hummingbird close to the Platte River at Kingfisher Bridge. This bird allowed me to get really close as he left his perch and returned several times. The Broad-Tailed Hummingbird has a very distinctive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1935,1934,1937,1933,1936,9,1415],"class_list":["post-10002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general","tag-broad-tailed","tag-chatfield-state-park","tag-hummingbird","tag-metallic","tag-perched","tag-red","tag-state-park"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t