{"id":71144,"date":"2026-03-14T12:32:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T12:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=71144"},"modified":"2026-03-14T12:32:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T12:32:30","slug":"humming-birds-of-the-volcanoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/03\/humming-birds-of-the-volcanoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Humming birds of the volcanoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They need 12000 calories<br \/>\nEvery single day<br \/>\nHumming birds<br \/>\nTheir small wings hum<br \/>\nWhat is there to say<br \/>\nAbove the clouds they are nesting<br \/>\nAustere environments where<br \/>\nPint sized flowers<br \/>\nThese pollinators<br \/>\nAt high alert they play<br \/>\nAll on high manoeuvres<br \/>\nNectar drives them they<br \/>\nFlying forwards flying backwards<br \/>\nVolcanoes all the way<\/p>\n<p>Gravity means nothing<br \/>\nCaldera\u2019s  colours scream<br \/>\nNoble ness personified<br \/>\nGentlefolk they be<br \/>\nCasting off their shackles<br \/>\nAnd living magically<br \/>\nEach a crowning glory<br \/>\nFine and fudged they<br \/>\nFollow through doing their stuff<br \/>\nHarmony at play<\/p>\n<p>Every leap a challenge<br \/>\nTheir brazenness on fire<br \/>\nRebellious in so many ways<br \/>\nThey seemingly don\u2019t tire<br \/>\nUnremitting efforts<br \/>\nSo much alacrity<br \/>\nAn earnestness to seek out<br \/>\nAnd so Spirited to me <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They need 12000 calories Every single day Humming birds Their small wings hum What is there to say Above the clouds they are nesting Austere environments where Pint sized flowers These pollinators At high alert they play All on high &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/03\/humming-birds-of-the-volcanoes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[905,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-birds-and-the-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71145,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71144\/revisions\/71145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}