{"id":1094,"date":"2008-03-21T22:03:52","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T22:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1094"},"modified":"2013-11-22T20:26:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T20:26:40","slug":"wakehurst-place-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wakehurst-place-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Wakehurst Place revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It&#39;s about 3 weeks since I last went out to <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2008\/03\/02\/wakehurst-place\" target=\"_blank\">Wakehurst Place<\/a>, but the chance of some bright (if cold) weather was too good to miss. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/magnolia_0203087570.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">magnificent magnolia<\/a> that was in full display has now shed it&#39;s blossom, but the birds were out in force, including the robins which for once were being uncommonly cooperative. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/robin_2103089442_x.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/robin_2103089442_x.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/robin_2103089317_x.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/robin_2103089317_x.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were plenty of ducks there as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/duck_2103089358_x.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/duck_2103089358_x.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I really do mean plenty of ducks. This group were following a group of children down to the water&#39;s edge in the hope of being fed. It makes a change from the other main duck activity which seems to be being chased by toddlers! It&#39;s something about ducks, I guess but they&#39;re impossible to ignore.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/ducks_2103089411_x.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/ducks_2103089411_x.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among the other sightings were a small flock of <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=482954&amp;picture=6833263\" target=\"_blank\">pied wagtails<\/a>, blackbirds, chaffinches, dunnocks, and several magnficent pheasants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/pheasant_2103089390_x.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/pheasant_2103089390_x.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More shots in the updated <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/show.dml?id=482954\" target=\"_blank\">Wakehurst Place 2008<\/a> album.<\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens + Kenko 1.4x Pro 300 DG teleconverter. <\/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],"tags":[33,334],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-wakehurst-place","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","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=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}