{"id":1081,"date":"2008-02-29T00:02:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T00:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1081"},"modified":"2013-11-22T22:53:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T22:53:39","slug":"pond-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/pond-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Pond update"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

There's still no spawn in the garden pond, though the frogs are continuing to 'pair up'. I did come across more successful breeding in some local ponds earlier in the week, as well as a veritable swarm of breeding toads. That was on a dawn walk on Tuesday with the RSPB, in mist and rain. Absurdly I only took one photo, and that of a lone toad.
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I've had better luck with the newts tonight. They were highly active and several were out on what passes for dry ground (it's been wet most of this week).<\/p>\n

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Newt displaying breeding colours<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

On the grass<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

One final photo from tonight. It's a re-take of a shot I took a couple of days<\/a> ago, but I prefer this one.<\/p>\n

The Frog and Feather (re-visited)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Camera note: the toad was photographed with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The newts and frog were all 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":[86,1026],"tags":[1149,114,220,1150],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frog","category-newt-amphibians-2","tag-frog","tag-newt","tag-pond","tag-toad","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