{"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

Another near first for me today. I'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

Grey Wagtail<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

You might ask why this spectacularly yellow<\/i> bird is called the grey wagtail. It gets its name from the upper body colour, which is slate in colour. Plus there's an even more brilliantly coloured species which lays claim to the 'yellow' 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

Sparrows<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

As for the home front…<\/p>\n

The newts are still active<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

And the shy fox made another appearance.<\/span><\/a>
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't approach too close it is certainly becoming less wary of the camera.<\/p>\n

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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t