{"id":1117,"date":"2008-04-18T00:04:13","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T23:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1117"},"modified":"2013-11-21T00:30:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T00:30:07","slug":"a-long-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-long-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A long day"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#39;m not sure yet whether this will become a habit, but I decided to look outside at around 1.20am last night (early hours of Thursday morning) to see if the badger would make another appearance. I was out of luck, but I guess this old fellow had heard the news and wanted to reaffirm his status as the leading light of the blog. After all, he&#39;s been around since almost the beginning.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/fox_dog_1704083397.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>He spent about 10 minutes exploring the garden, and scent marking virtually the whole place :eyes: <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/fox_dog_1704083415.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Before taking his leave at just after 1.30&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/fox_dog_1704083417.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>These late nights aren&#39;t ideal, but needs must and just a few hours later I was back out with the camera enjoying the weak sunshine before work. The pick of the early morning birds was this noisy wren.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wren_1704083422.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>At lunchtime I watched for a while as a female blackbird enjoyed her meal. I guess the worms might think differently. :yuck: <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/blackbird_1704083472.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And watched from the wrong side as a duck took to the air&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/duck_flight_1704083444.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The hedgehog was back again tonight. Actually, I think there are two of them but they are not the easiest of animals to tell apart.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/hedgehog_1704083510.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And then at about a quarter to midnight I had another surprise. This is the &#39;bold&#39; fox (who I use to think of as the shy fox). I&#39;ve not seen this one around too often but a few sultanas and it came trotting down the path to within 3 or 4 feet of me.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/fox_bold_1704083569.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: Foxes photographed with the EF24-105mm f\/4L IS USM lens; the shots of the birds were all taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS; and the hedgehog posed in front of the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro.<\/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],"tags":[33,1128,1168],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-hedgehog","tag-birds","tag-fox","tag-hedgehog","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","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=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}