{"id":1140,"date":"2008-05-25T00:05:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T23:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1140"},"modified":"2013-11-20T21:46:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T21:46:45","slug":"butterflies-and-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/butterflies-and-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterflies and Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Two birds dominated the garden today: collared doves, and the ubiquitous starlings which are busy feeding their young. The doves are still building nests judging by the frequency with which they were carrying twigs back and forth, but this one still had time for a quick preen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=523312&amp;picture=7399695\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/files.myopera.com\/Words\/albums\/523312\/collared_dove_2405089681.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The starlings were simply hungry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=523312&amp;picture=7399708\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/files.myopera.com\/Words\/albums\/523312\/starlings_2405089785.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=523312&amp;picture=7399707\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/files.myopera.com\/Words\/albums\/523312\/starling_2405089738.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=523312&amp;picture=7399694\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/files.myopera.com\/Words\/albums\/523312\/starling_juvenile_2405089801.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sunshine (which may be the last we see for several days) brought out the butterflies as well. There were numerous holly blues (one of the smaller butterflies and one I&#39;ve not had too much success photographing in the past), and several small whites.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/bugs\/album\/slides\/hollyblue_butterfly_2405089726.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/bugs\/album\/hollyblue_butterfly_2405089726.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Holly Blue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/bugs\/album\/slides\/smallwhite_butterfly_male_2405089720.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/bugs\/album\/smallwhite_butterfly_male_2405089720.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Small White (male)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: all shots taken 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":[980,992],"tags":[33,1144],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-butterfly-insects-2","tag-birds","tag-butterfly","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","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=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}