{"id":1226,"date":"2008-10-12T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1226"},"modified":"2013-11-19T18:39:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T18:39:03","slug":"kestrel-picture-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/kestrel-picture-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Kestrel picture special"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It was unbelievably warm day today and I managed to head over to my favoured kestrel haunt during the afternoon. For the first hour I had to content myself with small birds (goldfinches, wheatears and a few unidentified species). I&#39;d wandered off to the south of the area, but kept my eyes peeled and eventually spotted the faint sight of a hovering bird about half a mile back where I&#39;d come from.<\/p>\n<p>I slowly made my way across, taking some long range shots as I did in case it flew off. I needn&#39;t have worried. It turned out to be a spectacular sighting and produced around 200 images. I&#39;ve included a few here and have added a selection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrelfeed08\/album\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">two dozen<\/a> to my main website. They are not necessarily the best shots but sorting and processing them properly will take a while.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s a taster (term used advisedly!) \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrelfeed08\/album\/slides\/kestrel_1210088224.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrelfeed08\/album\/kestrel_1210088224.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">From a distance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrelfeed08\/album\/slides\/kestrel_1210088261.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrelfeed08\/album\/kestrel_1210088261.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Kestrel in full flight<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrelfeed08\/album\/slides\/kestrel_1210088278.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrelfeed08\/album\/kestrel_1210088278.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Kestrel resting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrelfeed08\/album\/slides\/kestrel_1210088295.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrelfeed08\/album\/kestrel_1210088295.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Kestrel hovering<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrelfeed08\/album\/slides\/kestrel_1210088303.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrelfeed08\/album\/kestrel_1210088303.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Kestrel carrying prey<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrelfeed08\/album\/slides\/kestrel_1210088342.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrelfeed08\/album\/kestrel_1210088342.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Beginning to eat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrelfeed08\/album\/slides\/kestrel_1210088411.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrelfeed08\/album\/kestrel_1210088411.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Kestrel enjoying its meal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>All shots were taken with the Canon EOS 40D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. For the shots of the kestrel devouring its prey I supported the camera on a Manfrotto 458B Neotec tripod and 488RC2 ball head.<\/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":[990],"tags":[1152],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","tag-kestrel","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","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=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}