{"id":1092,"date":"2008-03-19T00:03:09","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T00:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1092"},"modified":"2013-11-22T20:29:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T20:29:04","slug":"feathered-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/feathered-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Feathered Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#39;ve been somewhat remiss in sorting out recent photographs of birds. The dull weather hasn&#39;t helped, but I&#39;ve finally created an album for <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/show.dml?id=492931\" target=\"_blank\">March Birds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This first shot was taken yesterday and although not great quality shows the somewhat bizarre moment when a pied wagtail chased a kestrel! I doubt the wagtail would have been as bold with a sparrowhawk :eyes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/kestrel_pwt_1703088915.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/kestrel_pwt_1703088915.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next comes a shot from my trip to London. You can&#39;t visit London and not photograph the pigeons. This pair were getting on famously sharing breadcrumbs outside the British Library.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/pigeons_1403088558.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/pigeons_1403088558.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m going right back to the 1st of the month for this next image. A very elegant black-headed gull strolling through Hove Park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/blackheadedgull_0103087268.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/blackheadedgull_0103087268.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, one from today. Possibly my favourite of the month to date.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/bluetit_1803089042.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/bluetit_1803089042.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: Kestrel and wagtail taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens; the pigeons were captured with the EF24-105mm f\/4L IS USM lens; the gull was taken with the EF70-300mm f\/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM. Finally the blue tit was photographed with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS plus Kenko Teleplus 1.4x Pro 300 DG teleconverter (supported by the Manfrotto 685B Neotec monopod and 234RC title head). Phew!<\/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":[990,980],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","tag-birds","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","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=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}