{"id":1063,"date":"2008-02-05T23:02:14","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T23:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1063"},"modified":"2013-11-22T23:08:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T23:08:44","slug":"some-of-the-little-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/some-of-the-little-creatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of the little creatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Just the briefest sighting of a fox today, so instead I'll concentrate on some of the smaller creatures. Birds certainly fall within that category, and at lunchtime today I spent about 10 minutes watching a pair blue tits flitting among the branches of an ornamental tree. Here's the pair of them together.
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One of the interesting things about watching animals over a period of time is that you begin to notice the changes in behaviour. When I first started watching pied wagtails they were nearly always ground-hopping, but over the late autumn they were perched high on buildings swooping elegantly<\/a> for flies. Now they are back at low level, and seemingly more bold than I recall. I assume they are 'following the food' as it were, and at this time of year find better pickings on the ground. <\/p>\n

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I was having an odd time with the wood mouse this evening. I grabbed one 'sensible'<\/a> shot of the mouse on the feeder, and then was presented with a series of views such as this!<\/p>\n

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A little later on, during one of my periodic forays into the garden I noticed one of the newts<\/a> was out and about. I grabbed the macro lens and was taking some photos when I noticed some movement a couple of feet away from me. The mouse was getting cheeky. Very cheeky…<\/p>\n

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Camera note: birds taken with the EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO IS lens; the wood mouse in the tree with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM; and the final two shots were taken 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-1063","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