{"id":1046,"date":"2008-01-14T23:01:16","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T23:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1046"},"modified":"2013-11-23T00:50:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T00:50:22","slug":"magpie-on-a-grassy-mound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/magpie-on-a-grassy-mound\/","title":{"rendered":"Magpie on a grassy mound"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I managed to dodge the showers today, though it was extremely wet underfoot. There&#39;s a good variety of birds around at the moment. The black-headed gulls are present in large numbers over the fields, and on the edge of the woodland there are numerous redwings which have a tendency to avoid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/redwing_1401081640.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">open flight<\/a>. Or maybe that&#39;s just when I&#39;m around. There were various finches as well as rooks, crows and jackdaws, but my favourite sequence was this series of a magpie exploring a small grassy mound alongside a very muddy path. I was a fair distance away, and these are all moderate crops. All the photos are in the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/show.dml?id=441794\" target=\"_blank\">January Birds (2008)<\/a> album.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/magpie_1401081592.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/magpie_1401081592.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/magpie_1401081589.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/magpie_1401081589.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/magpie_1401081588.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/magpie_1401081588.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/magpie_1401081590.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/magpie_1401081590.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/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":[33,109],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-magpie","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","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=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}