{"id":1176,"date":"2008-07-18T22:07:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T21:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1176"},"modified":"2013-11-20T18:58:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T18:58:28","slug":"an-end-of-the-week-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/an-end-of-the-week-catch-up\/","title":{"rendered":"An end of the week catch-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#39;ve been busy with work most of the week which has left precious little time for attending to the blog. That, and dreadfully dull weather which has limited opportunities for decent photography.<\/p>\n<p>The foxes have been around, and the star this week has without doubt been the bold vixen who insists on living up to her name and is currently a more frequent visitor than the old dog fox. That said, both of them were spotted together in the garden last night (Thursday). This shot is from Wednesday, when she decided that she&#39;d investigate the torch I&#39;d left on the ground. She was just a few inches from me when I took this. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/1807081607088333.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/1807081607088333.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">The bold vixen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of the bird sightings this week, I saw a heron early on Tuesday morning. The light was poor, but I grabbed a couple of shots as it flew directly overhead looking decidedly prehistoric. <i>(Except it&#39;s not a heron at all, but a curlew which makes it a first for me. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Ukwildlife\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neil<\/a> for the correct i.d. :up: )<\/i><br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/heron_1507088090.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\"><s>Heron<\/s> Curlew<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The rabbits were also unusually bold, allowing me to get this shot of one grazing in the fields.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/rabbit_1507088075.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Wednesday morning provided me an opportunity to look for kestrels, but again the poor light scuppered the chance of any decent shots (of which there were many). This is one of the more interesting ones I caught.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/kestrel_1607088276.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Kestrel<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today took me further afield. I had to go up to the University of Warwick for a meeting. I took the camera on the off chance I&#39;d have a few minutes to photograph the campus, and did manage to squeeze a brief 20 minute break. It was graduation day, and the students were gathering for group photos when I went outside.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/graduation_1807088413.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I&#39;d almost given up hope of finding any local wildlife when I came across this sign. I had about 10 minutes to spare&#8230; <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/sign_1807088463.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>No herons on Heronbank, but the lakeside proved fruitful.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/geese_1807088454.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Canada Geese<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/duck_1807088437.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Female Mallard<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: Heron, rabbit and kestrel taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens; the vixen with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM; and the geese and duck with the highly portable EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO 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":[990,980,4,1,989],"tags":[33,1128],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-uncategorized","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-fox","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","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=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}