{"id":1005,"date":"2007-11-23T21:11:24","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T21:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1005"},"modified":"2013-11-23T12:25:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T12:25:16","slug":"the-small-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/the-small-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"The small birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

This selection was taken yesterday (Thursday). I would have got them up sooner but put my PC into a chkdsk run last night which lasted about 5 hours! That, plus the late night downtime, conspired against posting anything. Better late than never though. The photos are all in the November Birds<\/a> album, with numerous additional shots.<\/p>\n

The stars of the show were the longtailed tits, a small bird that I see frequently but have very rarely managed to photograph. They were flitting around ceaselessly but for once I had a good vantage point. One interesting point about this species is that it functions in an extended family group, with the adults sharing parental duties. It's also a wonderfully pretty little thing.<\/p>\n

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Mixing in among the longtails were two other tit varieties. The great tit and the blue tit. <\/p>\n

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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],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-birds","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t