{"id":1061,"date":"2008-02-04T00:02:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T00:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1061"},"modified":"2013-11-22T23:10:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T23:10:11","slug":"the-fox-by-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/the-fox-by-the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"The fox by the pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In a recent post a question came up about  our garden pond. It&#39;s small, clogged with weed and leaves, but seems an extremely fertile location for <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/show.dml?id=201890\" target=\"_blank\">frogs and newts<\/a>. It seems to thrive on semi-neglect (I do clear the leaves and thin out the weed occasionally). As well as the newts and frogs, the pond supports a wide variety of insect life, though it tends to be too small to be a major attraction to dragonflies. Damsels do make use of it though. <\/p>\n<p>As for size, it&#39;s only a couple or so feet wide at most points and undulates all of about 10 feet. I&#39;d been meaning to photograph it, and tonight the old dog fox provided the perfect opportunity. At the far end (to the right in the first photo) the depth is only about 6 inches. The near end has a small area which is about 3 foot deep, but there are several planting ledges around the edge which means most of it is quite shallow. <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/0402080302084107.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/fox_dog_0302084107.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Walking alongside the pond<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/fox_dog_0302084109.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Balancing on the lip of the pond<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/fox_dog_0302084127.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Stepping across the corner of the pond<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM 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":[4],"tags":[1128,220],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","tag-fox","tag-pond","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","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=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}