{"id":1281,"date":"2009-01-06T23:01:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T23:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1281"},"modified":"2013-11-17T18:54:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T18:54:39","slug":"a-blast-from-siberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-blast-from-siberia\/","title":{"rendered":"A blast from Siberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Well possibly not and the temperatures are still laughably mild compared to some parts of the world, but for England sub-zero is bitterly cold. And I&#39;m suffering for my &#39;art&#39;, not having yet figured out how to manage a camera while wearing gloves. So my hands are frozen, cracked and chapped. But the landscapes are wonderful in the winter light, and the bird life is varied and plentiful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/frozen_pond_0601098234.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/frozen_pond_0601098234.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">The dew pond, frozen in the winter sun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/pigeon_0601098219.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/pigeon_0601098219.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Pigeon in the morning sun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/pwt_0601098268.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/pwt_0601098268.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">A pied wagtail in flight<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/pwt_0601098349.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/pwt_0601098349.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">And resting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/cattle_0601098286.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/cattle_0601098286.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">The cattle were grazing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/pwt_cattle_0601098288.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/pwt_cattle_0601098288.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Spot the bird?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/lapwing_0601098280.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/lapwing_0601098280.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">And a lapwing flew overhead :faint:<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A quick quiz: How many pied wagtails can you see in this post?<br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: the wagtails, pigeon and cattle were all photographed with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The shot of the dew pond was taken with the EF 17-40mm 1:4L USM and polarizing filter.<\/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":[980,1049,1003],"tags":[33,64,500,501,59],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-cattle-farming-2","category-landscape-2","tag-birds","tag-cattle","tag-lapwing","tag-pied-wagtails","tag-pigeon","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","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=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}