{"id":1023,"date":"2007-12-16T23:12:02","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T23:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1023"},"modified":"2013-11-23T11:55:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T11:55:46","slug":"a-garden-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-garden-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"A garden selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

As well as flying coyotes<\/a>, the winter sunshine brought out the birds. Which meant I spent a lot of time out in the cold. I really need to invest in a pair of gloves. It gets pretty cold out there, even in England, at this time of year. :smurf:<\/p>\n

The first shot of the day was a herring gull.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The little dunnock was back at the feeder.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A collared dove was making the best of the weak sunshine.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A male chaffinch paused for a few moments.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

As did a rather severe looking greenfinch.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

There are more of the birds in the December Birds<\/a> album, including the ubiquitous wood pigeon<\/a> and starlings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No sign of the foxes, though at night I can hear them in the distance. I've no doubt they're around but for the moment our clocks are out of synch, and there's a limit to how much time I can spend outside. Warm September evenings are much more conducive! But I did get to see the little wood mouse again, and unusually it was down at ground level.<\/p>\n

Wood mouse peeking out from the pond surround.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Later in the evening it was back to its more usual haunt.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

There are several more shots of the mouse in The Wood Mouse Files<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Including the one that got away!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Camera note: Birds all taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens; the first wood mouse with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM; and the close-ups 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":[980,54],"tags":[33,326],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-mouse","tag-birds","tag-wood-mouse","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