{"id":1733,"date":"2010-09-26T22:09:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T21:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1733"},"modified":"2013-11-10T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T12:45:10","slug":"goldfinches-at-the-water-trough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/goldfinches-at-the-water-trough\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldfinches at the Water Trough"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It&#39;s autumn, and flocks of birds are busy preparing for winter. Goldfinches are among those birds that do overwinter in the UK, but like many natives a good number also take a winter break in Spain. They&#39;re highly social birds and I came across a small flock this morning. The juveniles are still in their youthful plumage, which lacks the vivid red face of the adult.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/goldfinch_2609101846.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Juvenile goldfinch<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/goldfinch_2609101877.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>They were flitting between trees.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/goldfinch_2609101885.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>But mainly they were socialising at the local watering hole&#8230; in this instance a trough for the local sheep.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/goldfinch_2609101901.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/goldfinch_2609101902.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/goldfinch_2609101917.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/goldfinch_2609101926.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/goldfinch_2609101930.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There&#39;s always one though who doesn&#39;t join in :whistle:<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/goldfinch_2609101941.jpg' \/><\/span> <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: all shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980],"tags":[33,211],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-goldfinch","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}