{"id":1069,"date":"2008-02-11T01:02:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T01:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1069"},"modified":"2013-11-22T23:04:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T23:04:28","slug":"a-sunday-mixture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-sunday-mixture\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sunday Mixture"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Another bright, warm day today. I'm not sure if this means we've already had winter or whether we've some cold shocks ahead, but I did see two butterflies today. Both refused to keep still, so you'll have to take my word for the fact that one was white, and the other yellow. I wasn't close enough to get more of an i.d., but a nice surprise. <\/p>\n

The sight of the butterflies got me thinking. If they're around, we should be seeing more insect life. So I plugged the extension tubes on the end of the 100-400 lens and started hunting. I did come across two ladybirds, but ended up photographing a small feather on a path.<\/p>\n

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And a leaf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

And my first hoverfly of the year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The gulls were active too (when are they not?), but I think this is probably the first time I photographed a gull's tongue. <\/p>\n

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No sighting of foxes this evening, though we did have a late visit last night. The wood mouse did put in an appearance though.<\/p>\n

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Camera note: Feather, leaf and hoverfly taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens plus extension tubes; the gull was taken with the same lens but with the Kenko Teleplus 1.4x Pro 300 DG teleconverter. For the photos of the mouse I used 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":[980,54,1],"tags":[1137],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-mouse","category-uncategorized","tag-nature","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