{"id":1008,"date":"2007-11-26T23:11:03","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T23:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1008"},"modified":"2013-11-23T12:20:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T12:20:49","slug":"grey-wagtail-another-oddly-named-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/grey-wagtail-another-oddly-named-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Grey Wagtail (another oddly named bird)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Another near first for me today. I&#39;ve seen grey wagtails once before, but only in a breeding aviary at the Wildlife and Wetlands Trust in Arundel. So this is my first sighting of one in the wild. It was flitting above a small enclosed garden at work. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/greywagtail_2611076687.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/greywagtail_2611076687.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Grey Wagtail<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You might ask why this spectacularly <i>yellow<\/i> bird is called the grey wagtail. It gets its name from the upper body colour, which is slate in colour. Plus there&#39;s an even more brilliantly coloured species which lays claim to the &#39;yellow&#39; tag. The garden where I saw this one is dominated by sparrows which flit among the ornamental trees and feeders. They are typically unconcerned about people being around.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/sparrows_2611076669.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/sparrows_2611076669.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Sparrows<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As for the home front&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/newt_2611076710.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/newt_2611076710.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">The newts are still active<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/fox_shy_2611076713.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/fox_shy_2611076713.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">And the shy fox made another appearance.<\/span><\/a><br \/>The photo of the fox (the same one as yesterday) was taken at a distance, hence the distinctive eye-shine. It paused in the garden for a few moments and although it didn&#39;t approach too close it is certainly becoming less wary of the camera.<\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO IS lens, except the newt which was with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro.<\/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":[980,4],"tags":[1128,114,264,372],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","tag-fox","tag-newt","tag-sparrow","tag-wagtail","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","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=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}