{"id":1057,"date":"2008-01-29T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T00:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1057"},"modified":"2013-11-22T23:14:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T23:14:47","slug":"a-little-bird-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-little-bird-song\/","title":{"rendered":"A little bird song"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I was walking across a car park at lunchtime today, when my attention was drawn to distinctive bird song in the distance. A song thrush was in full voice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=441794&amp;picture=6396166\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/files.myopera.com\/Words\/albums\/441794\/thrush_2801083386.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luck was favouring me, and it remained proudly and loudly perched while I approached. The light let me down somewhat (again) but I managed a couple of usable shots from closer distances.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=441794&amp;picture=6396167\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/files.myopera.com\/Words\/albums\/441794\/thrush_2801083399.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=441794&amp;picture=6396165\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/files.myopera.com\/Words\/albums\/441794\/thrush_2801083404.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It occurred to me that it would be helpful to have some sound. I don&#39;t have any recording equipment, but I found this sound file of a song thrush on the <a href=\"http:\/\/freesound.iua.upf.edu\/samplesViewSingle.php?id=22968\" target=\"_blank\">Freesound Project<\/a> pages. Usage is via a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/sampling+\/1.0\/\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Commons licence<\/a>. The file is Thrush1 by acclivity:<br \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/sound\/22968__acclivity__Thrush1.mp3\" autoplay=\"false\" width=\"160\" height=\"18\" allowscriptaccess=\"never\"><\/p>\n<p>On an entirely different note, I finally got a photo of a wood mouse on the ground! Those are sultanas by the way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/woodmouse_2801083430.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/woodmouse_2801083430.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: the thrush was photographed with the EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO IS + Kenko 1.4x Pro 300 DG teleconverter. The mouse was caught with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro lens.<\/i><\/embed><\/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":[55,326],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-mouse","tag-thrush","tag-wood-mouse","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","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=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}