{"id":1292,"date":"2009-01-23T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T00:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1292"},"modified":"2013-11-17T18:40:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T18:40:17","slug":"its-been-a-slow-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/its-been-a-slow-week\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been a slow week"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Apart from yesterday when I was in <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/365\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=667931&amp;picture=9249245\" target=\"_blank\">London<\/a>, this has been a miserable week for the weather. Dull, damp days, and rainy nights. I risked the light drizzle at lunchtime today, and while not exactly a spectacular, I did spot a sparrowhawk gliding over the fields.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/sparrowhawk_2201090383.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/sparrowhawk_2201090383.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Sparrowhawk<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearer to the ground, a bold female blackbird allowed me to get close enough for a few frames before she vanished into the thicker undergrowth.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/blackbird_2201090423.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/blackbird_2201090423.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Female blackbird<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s been too wet to go outside to try to catch a glimpse of the local foxes, but the signs are that they are still around somewhere. This is beginning to turn into the longest fox-free period (photographically) in over 3 years of documenting the garden foxes. I did manage a few photos on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/fox_nicked_ear_vixen_3112087247.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">New Year&#39;s Eve<\/a>, but since then, nothing beyond some very brief observations and this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/fox_nicked_ear_vixen_0201097646.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">one shot<\/a> from January 2nd.<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: both bird shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The vixen was photographed with the EF24-105mm f\/4L IS USM 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],"tags":[33,1128],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-fox","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","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=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}