{"id":23889,"date":"2015-05-17T05:16:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T11:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=23889"},"modified":"2025-09-20T10:39:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T15:39:56","slug":"happy-birthday-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2015\/05\/17\/happy-birthday-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Mom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_157088\" style=\"width: 860px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157088\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-157088 size-full\" title=\"Happy Birthday Mom! Female Black-chinned Hummingbird hovering over flowers, Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/black-chinned-hummingbird-mia-mcpherson-6568.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/black-chinned-hummingbird-mia-mcpherson-6568.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Birthday Mom! Female Black-chinned Hummingbird hovering over flowers, Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah\" width=\"850\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27850%27%20height%3D%27445%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20850%20445%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27850%27%20height%3D%27445%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/black-chinned-hummingbird-mia-mcpherson-6568-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/black-chinned-hummingbird-mia-mcpherson-6568-400x209.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/black-chinned-hummingbird-mia-mcpherson-6568-600x314.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/black-chinned-hummingbird-mia-mcpherson-6568-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/black-chinned-hummingbird-mia-mcpherson-6568.jpg 850w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-157088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy Birthday Mom!<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My Mom loves birds, flowers and nature and she is a big part of why I do too.<\/p>\n<p>When the hummingbirds return each year to her feeders she calls me and says &#8220;They&#8217;re back!&#8221; so I couldn&#8217;t think of a better bird to post as her Birthday card. Or her Bird Day card.<\/p>\n<p>I love you Mom and I hope you have an awesome, bird-filled day!<\/p>\n<p>Mia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Mom loves birds, flowers and nature and she is a big part of why I do too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[511,27,1778,1022,26],"tags":[4460,4021,1779,4070,4052,4174,2652],"class_list":["post-23889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island-state-park","category-avian","category-black-chinned-hummingbirds","category-davis-county-utah","category-utah","tag-archilochus-alexandri","tag-bird-photography","tag-black-chinned-hummingbird","tag-female","tag-flight","tag-hovering-2","tag-hummingbirds-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/black-chinned-hummingbird-mia-mcpherson-6568.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-6dj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15649,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/08\/15\/a-female-black-chinned-hummingbird-and-a-bee-plant\/","url_meta":{"origin":23889,"position":0},"title":"Female Black-chinned Hummingbird And A Bee Plant","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"August 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The brief appearance of this Black-chinned Hummingbird delighted me yesterday as she fed on the Rocky Mountain Bee Plant.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antelope Island State Park&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antelope Island State Park","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/locations\/utah\/antelope-island-state-park\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Female Black-chinned Hummingbird feeding with insect \"friends\", Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/black-chinned-hummingbird-female-mia-mcpherson-4008.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/black-chinned-hummingbird-female-mia-mcpherson-4008.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/black-chinned-hummingbird-female-mia-mcpherson-4008.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/black-chinned-hummingbird-female-mia-mcpherson-4008.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6017,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/08\/30\/female-black-chinned-hummingbird\/","url_meta":{"origin":23889,"position":1},"title":"Female Black-chinned Hummingbird","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"August 30, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday I saw a female Black-chinned Hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri) checking out the feeder near my front window.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Birds&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Birds","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/avian\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Female Black-chinned Hummingbird, Salt Lake County, Utah","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/black-chinned-hummingbird-female-mia-mcpherson-9714.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/black-chinned-hummingbird-female-mia-mcpherson-9714.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/black-chinned-hummingbird-female-mia-mcpherson-9714.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9514,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/09\/21\/pretty-in-pink-black-chinned-hummingbird\/","url_meta":{"origin":23889,"position":2},"title":"Pretty in Pink &#8211; Black-chinned Hummingbird","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"September 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, I made it through another week. 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