{"id":1156,"date":"2008-06-14T01:06:34","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T00:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1156"},"modified":"2013-11-20T20:40:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T20:40:18","slug":"kestrel-sighted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/kestrel-sighted\/","title":{"rendered":"Kestrel sighted"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->No, not the new and improved version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/products\/desktop\/\" target=\"_blank\">Opera Browser<\/a> launched yesterday, but a kestrel of the feathered variety. <\/p>\n<p>I decided to explore a different route today, which took me out to some playing fields. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/landscape_1306083459.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There were numerous rabbits about enjoying the sunshine.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/rabbit_1306083433.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>But it was some movement overhead that really caught my eye. A kestrel was sweeping the field. My first set of shots were into the light (and have been quickly discarded), but it turned so that the sun was behind me and I was able to get a number of usable shots. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kestrel_1306083471.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kestrel_1306083471.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kestrel_1306083478.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kestrel_1306083478.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kestrel_1306083486.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>More birds from today in the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/show.dml?id=546025\" target=\"_blank\">June Birds<\/a> album, including this closing shot of a robin. The shot was taken under thick foliage, handheld and without flash. The shutter speed was a miserable 1\/50s and the lens was at 400mm. It&#39;s a good example of just how effective the image stabilization in lenses can be.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/robin_1306083422.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/robin_1306083422.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/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":[990,980,1003,8,1004],"tags":[33,1152,1130,78],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","category-landscape-2","category-rabbit","category-south-downs-national-park-landscape-2","tag-birds","tag-kestrel","tag-rabbit","tag-robin","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","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=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}