{"id":1021,"date":"2007-12-16T00:12:49","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T00:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1021"},"modified":"2013-11-23T11:57:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T11:57:25","slug":"dunnock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/dunnock\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunnock"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The dunnock is one of the more frequent visitors to the garden, and among the bolder of the small birds. It flits quite happily between shrubs, and will occasionally dive low into the undergrowth. It is generally fairly tolerant of human presence, which is certainly a help when taking photos. One other unusual fact (gleaned from the RSPB <i>Complete Birds of Britain and Europe<\/i> is that in the mating season it tends to form <i>m\u00e9nages \u00e0 trois<\/i> of one male and two females (or occasionally two males and one female) :eyes:  Today though, there was only one in the garden helping itself to seed from the feeder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/dunnock_1512077955.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/dunnock_1512077955.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/dunnock_1512077968.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/dunnock_1512077968.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/dunnock_1512077977.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/dunnock_1512077977.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More photos of the Dunnock in the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/show.dml?id=426583\" target=\"_blank\">December Birds<\/a> album.<\/p>\n<p><i>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":[33,163],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-dunnock","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","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=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}