{"id":1071,"date":"2008-02-12T23:02:59","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T23:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1071"},"modified":"2013-11-22T23:02:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T23:02:38","slug":"pond-life-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/pond-life-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pond Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The continuing mild weather is encouraging the garden amphibians to be ever more active, though we&#39;re yet to witness the breeding frenzy of the frogs. <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=201890&amp;picture=3146915\" target=\"_blank\">Last year<\/a> spawning was late February, so it&#39;s about the right time to be watching closely. <\/p>\n<p>As it is there were four or five frogs visible this evening at different times (if I count the ones under the surface). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/frog_1202085400.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/frog_1202085400.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/frog_1202085401.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/frog_1202085401.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>The newts were too numerous to count. I tried, but kept losing them is the weed as they dived for cover. The males, who seem generally more cautious of the light, are sporting their mating colours. The body lightens somewhat and they develop large darkened blotches. They also have a tendency to dive for cover when the torchlight catches them. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/newt_1202085388.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/newt_1202085388.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/newt_1202085373.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/newt_1202085373.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No signs of any toads yet, but that&#39;s not unexpected. We have far fewer of them and they are likely to be out on dry land and out of range of the camera. The newts do venture out occasionally (we find them under piles of dry leaves). They also like to bask in the moonlight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/newt_1202085368.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/newt_1202085368.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More images from tonight in the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/show.dml?id=201890\" target=\"_blank\">Amphibians<\/a> album.<\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: all tonights shots were taken with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro 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":[86,1026],"tags":[41,165],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frog","category-newt-amphibians-2","tag-frogs","tag-newts","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","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=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}