{"id":1160,"date":"2008-06-21T00:06:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T23:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1160"},"modified":"2013-11-20T20:35:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T20:35:42","slug":"a-round-up-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-round-up-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"A round up of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The young gulls were asleep this morning when I went to check on them. I took a couple of reference shots and was about to leave them to it when an adult turned up. Not just any adult, but an adult with FOOD!
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That shot is of the chick on the 'lower deck' of the roof. The feeding set off a minor temper tantrum on the 'upper deck' where the smaller of the two chicks was feeling left out!
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It wasn't long before 'lower deck' was joining in.
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As for other recent news, I'd been told about a field near work where buzzards are frequently seen. I popped over to the approximate area yesterday, and sure enough it wasn't long before one appeared. I took several shots, and although most were too distant I've added a selection to the June Birds<\/a> album. The other major sighting while I was there was a heron in flight. That's the first I've seen round here (photo is dire but is in the album).<\/p>\n

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As an added bonus, the views of the South Downs<\/a> were spectacular.<\/p>\n

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I've also made a couple of visits to the dew pond this week to see the dragonflies. They're not too abundant yet, but I did see some newts surfacing in the warm weather. Their appearance is an important confirmation of the maturing of the pond which was constructed 3 or 4 years ago. As far as I know this is the first year they've been in evidence. <\/p>\n

In the garden we've had a hedgehog<\/a> visiting, and on the fox front there was a brief visit by the bold vixen earlier in the week (that's a sausage in her mouth, by the way), and tonight the old dog fox<\/a> put in an appearance for the first time since last weekend.<\/p>\n

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Camera note: all shots on this page taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens, except the vixen photo which was taken 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":[990,4,1004,989],"tags":[179,424,68],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-foxes","category-south-downs-national-park-landscape-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-buzzard","tag-chicks","tag-gull","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