{"id":1104,"date":"2008-04-06T01:04:24","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T00:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1104"},"modified":"2013-11-22T19:37:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T19:37:38","slug":"weekend-fox-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/weekend-fox-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend fox update"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Last night (Friday) we didn&#39;t see the foxes, but we could hear them in the early hours. They were making loud territorial calls late into the night. The cause is almost certainly a cat that had been prowling around. We heard the cat eventaully beat a retreat, clattering past the bins, but the fox calls continued for a considerable time after that.<\/p>\n<p>There was no daytime fox activity, though while I was in the garden a sparrowhawk glided at low level across the garden. It was a moment impossible to capture on camera. A pigeon came in low over my shoulder and as I looked up the sparrowhawk was passing just a few feet above me at a height of no more than 15 or 20 feet. Wonderful, but all too brief. It was through the trees the other side of the garden in a blink of an eye.<\/p>\n<p>The smaller birds were active though, and easier to photograph. Chaffinches, greenfinches, starlings and blue tits were among the visitors. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/bluetit_0504081523.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Blue tit<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/chaffinch_0504081458.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Chaffinch<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There was more activity in the evening. One of the newer &#39;regulars&#39; is a large hedgehog which lurks at the rear of the garden. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/hedgehog_0504081545.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And a wood mouse was lurking in the shrubs, taking a break from its tree-dwelling habits for a spot of grooming. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/woodmouse_0504081557.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/woodmouse_0504081557.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the star of the evening was the young nicked-ear vixen. She appeared quite late, and didn&#39;t stay long before leaping the high fence to continue her night&#39;s hunting. She&#39;s very active at the moment. It was presumably her calls we could hear last night, and earlier in the week we watched from a window as she prowled the front garden. Here she is in a more sedate moment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/0604080504081566.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/0604080504081566.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: Blue tit photographed with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Same lens for the chaffinch, but with the 1.4x Pro 300 DG teleconverter, tripod mounted. The hedgehog and wood mouse were taken with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro lens. And for the fox I used the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM.<\/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":[980,4,282,54],"tags":[33,1128,24,326],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-hedgehog","category-mouse","tag-birds","tag-fox","tag-wildlife-2","tag-wood-mouse","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","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=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}