{"id":1114,"date":"2008-04-13T23:04:40","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T22:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1114"},"modified":"2013-11-22T19:22:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T19:22:53","slug":"time-for-the-foxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/time-for-the-foxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for the foxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->My excitement over a spectacular couple of days bird watching has meant I&#39;ve fallen behind on news of the foxes. Today&#39;s birding highlight was a sparrowhawk which came in at reasonable altitude over the garden. And for once, I had a chance to take some shots with the sun behind me. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/raptors\/album\/slides\/sparrowhawk_1304082852.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/raptors\/album\/sparrowhawk_1304082852.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As an attempt at file-space management I&#39;ve uploaded the rest from today to my main web space, along with some from yesterday. The album is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/raptors\/album\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Raptors 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Edit: I&#39;m adding another shot, of the most commonplace of birds, the starling. It&#39;s a shot I&#39;ve been after for a long time and I&#39;ve got countless near misses. Today was good though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/starling_flight_1304082928.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/starling_flight_1304082928.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>As for the foxes, well after several weeks of relative quiet we seem to be back on their regular circuit. Last night was brief but special. It was the first time I can recall seeing the old dog fox and the nicked-ear vixen in the garden together. The surprise was too much and this shot does the old fellow less than justice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/fox_april2008\/album\/slides\/fox_x2_1204082753.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/fox_april2008\/album\/fox_x2_1204082753.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night the vixen remained cautious, but tonight she excelled herself and trotted around the garden for 10 or 15 minutes while I sat there firing off the camera. There&#39;s a small part of me which makes me think the old dog fox has told her not to worry about me. Probably just me anthropomorphizing like crazy, but it&#39;s odd that one night they&#39;re together and the next she rushes around me without any concern at all. I&#39;m still working through the pictures (there are over 50) but here are a couple. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/fox_april2008\/album\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">few more<\/a> are posted on my web site.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/fox_april2008\/album\/slides\/fox_nicked_vixen_1304082948.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/fox_april2008\/album\/fox_nicked_vixen_1304082948.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/fox_april2008\/album\/slides\/fox_nicked_vixen_1304082997.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/fox_april2008\/album\/fox_nicked_vixen_1304082997.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, she finally got her egg \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM lens. For the &#39;two foxes&#39; shot I used the Kenko Teleplus 1.4x Pro 300 DG teleconverter as well. <\/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":[990,4],"tags":[1128,1154],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-foxes","tag-fox","tag-sparrowhawk","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","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=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}