{"id":1203,"date":"2008-09-01T00:08:52","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T23:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1203"},"modified":"2013-11-19T22:51:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T22:51:18","slug":"beauty-or-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/beauty-or-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty or Beast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Terrible weather today. By late afternoon we were shrouded in mist, so very few opportunities for bird or mammal watching (although a fox did flit through the garden this morning). Instead I hunted out the smaller creatures. Whether they can be classed as beauties or beasts is (I guess) a matter of taste. Needless to say, I quite like them :bug:<\/p>\n<p>The wet weather brought out the snails.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/bugs\/album\/slides\/snail_3108083030.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/bugs\/album\/snail_3108083030.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Bashful snail<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the slugs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/bugs\/album\/slides\/slug_3108083061.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/bugs\/album\/slug_3108083061.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">A sluggish slug<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More unusual was this shield bug lurking at the rear of the garden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/bugs\/album\/slides\/shield_bug_3108083016_b.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/bugs\/album\/shield_bug_3108083016_b.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Shield bug<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Being out with the macro made me wonder whether we had any young newts in the pond. I&#39;ve not really been looking for them, but sure enough they were there, among all the weed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/newt_3108083057.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/newt_3108083057.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Young newt with gills<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally (and look away now if you suffer from arachnophobia), a common garden spider seen from a somewhat uncommon perspective.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/bugs\/album\/slides\/spider_3108083066_b.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/bugs\/album\/spider_3108083066_b.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Here&#39;s looking at you :bug:<\/span><\/a><br \/><i><br \/>Camera note: all shots taken with the EOS 40D and Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro 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":[991,1026,253,1009],"tags":[114,452,261,1164,1132],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insects-2","category-newt-amphibians-2","category-snail","category-spiders-2","tag-newt","tag-shield-bug","tag-slug","tag-snail","tag-spider","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","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=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}