{"id":1153,"date":"2008-06-09T00:06:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T23:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1153"},"modified":"2013-11-20T20:44:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T20:44:51","slug":"wakehurst-place-revisited-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wakehurst-place-revisited-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wakehurst Place revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We made another trip out to Wakehurst Place today. There are several more photos in the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/show.dml?id=482954\" target=\"_blank\">album<\/a>, but these are a tiny sample of over 300 I managed to take. The weather was glorious, but bizarrely about half my shots were taken in deep shade and I struggled to get any light on the subject at all. These included a grey wagtail, a thrush, a young great tit, and mainly a sequence of a demoiselle attacking a pair of mating red damsels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/demoiselle_damselfly_attack_0806082516.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/demoiselle_damselfly_attack_0806082516.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Damselfly attack<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The conditions were rather better at the large pond near the front of Wakehurst. The damsels were very much in evidence, to the delight of the a pied wagtail which was happily feasting. Some swallows swooped down low as well, but as ever were too fast to capture in flight. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/pwt_pond_0806082360.jpg' \/><\/span><span class=\"aligncenter\">Pied Wagtail<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I also grabbed some shots of my first emperor dragonflies of the year. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/emperor_dragonfly_0806082275.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/emperor_dragonfly_0806082275.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Emperor dragonfly<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And my first ever photo of a red-eyed damsel.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/red_eyed_damselfly_0806082298.jpg' \/><\/span><span class=\"aligncenter\">Red-eyed damselfly<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And yes, there were one or two ducks about as well. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ducks_0806082370.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ducks_0806082370.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Ducks in a line<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not that they were keen on the camera \ud83d\ude09<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ducks_dipping_0806082378.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Good night!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,309,989],"tags":[33,299,334,24],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-damselfly","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-dragonflies","tag-wakehurst-place","tag-wildlife-2","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}