{"id":1108,"date":"2008-04-07T21:04:14","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T20:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1108"},"modified":"2013-11-22T19:30:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T19:30:54","slug":"showing-the-white-feather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/showing-the-white-feather\/","title":{"rendered":"Showing the white feather"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->No I&#39;m not about to give up on the blog, but over the weekend I was having a small discussion over on Bitzy&#39;s 365 photo project about a <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/365\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=417455&amp;picture=6880186\" target=\"_blank\">crow with a white tail.<\/a> We were discussing whether or not this was a common occurrence. <\/p>\n<p>Well today I walk out toward the fields and what do I see but this. Not a crow, but rook. With several white feathers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/rook_0704081808.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/rook_0704081808.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/rook_0704081870.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/rook_0704081870.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were a dozen or so rooks on the ground, feeding after the snow-melt. I followed this one around for 10 minutes or so and took lots of shots, but haven&#39;t had chance to process them all yet. I wanted to post a couple though. Interesting to note that both crows and rooks are corvids, of which the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=441794&amp;picture=6297223\" target=\"_blank\">magpie<\/a> is the absolute star so far as white feathers are concerned.<\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: both shots with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/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":[33,46],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-rook","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","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=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}