{"id":1147,"date":"2008-06-01T00:05:35","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T23:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1147"},"modified":"2013-11-20T20:52:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T20:52:21","slug":"birds-bees-and-an-encounter-with-a-rose-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/birds-bees-and-an-encounter-with-a-rose-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds, bees and an encounter with a rose bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Strange weather today. It started bright, turned hot and muggy and then clouded over and was quite cool by evening. I mowed the lawn during the 'hot and muggy' phase (and managed a few photos as well).<\/p>\n

First the bees, which were enjoying the warm weather. The first shot is fairly standard fare, but the second is the first time I've seen a leaf-cutter with some leaf. It landed briefly by the side of the pond, before taking to the air carrying its load with it.<\/p>\n

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As for the birds, there was good variety of the usual (gulls, crows, magpies), and a couple of more interesting sightings.<\/p>\n

Buzzard overhead<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Starling catching food on the wing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Kestrel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Pigeon bemused by the flash!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Really bemused!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The red damsels were flitting about as well, and I had fleeting sightings of tits and sparrows as they dived into the thick canopy of the beech trees. There are young in there somewhere. I can hear, but I can't see them.<\/p>\n

The old dog fox was back this evening. On his own for a change, which may account for some of his odd behaviour. I'm not sure what caused him to do it, but he decided to crawl under our very dense, very large ground-cover rose bush. Its thorns are dense and sharp as razors. No wonder they pick up injuries!<\/p>\n

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Er… maybe not such a great idea…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Camera note: all shots (bar the fox) taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS. The fox was photographed with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM 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":[993,980,4],"tags":[234,33,1128],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bee-insects-2","category-birds-2","category-foxes","tag-bees","tag-birds","tag-fox","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t