{"id":1101,"date":"2008-04-01T22:04:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T21:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1101"},"modified":"2013-11-22T20:19:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T20:19:30","slug":"my-worst-ever-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/my-worst-ever-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"My worst ever shot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

<\/span> Believe it or not I was aiming the camera at a fox. Not just any fox, but the first fox I've seen at work during my lunchtime forays into the nearby woodland and fields. I'd been photographing birds (a robin to be precise) and was just moving along the path. Some rabbits scurried through the woodland (too fast even to attempt to photograph), but as the path opened up into a small grassy area a fox shot across in front of me and headed toward some nearby buildings. I swung the camera round but the fox was away. So while I have to mark that down as a bad missed opportunity, all is not lost. I saw where the fox went (to a nearby building and down some steps!). On looking closer I could see that there were a couple of workings which look like the entrance to a den, dug just under the edge of the building. So I've got a pretty good idea of where it lives \ud83d\ude00 <\/p>\n

As for the rest of the walk, I had some good sightings of birds.
Robin<\/span><\/p>\n

Pied Wagtail<\/span><\/p>\n

Female Chaffinch<\/span><\/p>\n

There were also crows, magpies, and from a great distance a small group of long-tailed tits. A blue tit was hunting ladybirds at the top of a nearby building.
<\/span> Ladybirds, just above and to the left of the blue tit<\/span><\/p>\n

But the best of the birds was last. I took a brief detour to the local dew pond on the way back and a pair of male mallards were out on the water. We don't often get ducks there, so it's always a pleasure to see them.<\/p>\n

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More of the birds are in the new April Birds 2008<\/a> album, but the fox won't make to my 'Fox of the Day' (though in many ways of course it is \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n

Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. I added the 1.4 teleconverter for the wagtail and duck, and the fox!<\/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":[980,4,1],"tags":[33,1128],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-uncategorized","tag-birds","tag-fox","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