{"id":1219,"date":"2008-09-28T00:09:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T23:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1219"},"modified":"2013-11-19T19:13:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T19:13:28","slug":"garden-delights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/garden-delights\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden delights"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

A couple of days ago<\/a> I mentioned that jays never come near our garden. But I didn't mention that they do read blogs \ud83d\ude09 Really! Why else would this fine bird have decided to fly over the garden today almost as soon as I'd put my head outside? <\/p>\n

Jay over the garden<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What's more, it paused briefly in the sycamore tree and was considerate enough not to completely hide away behind the branches.<\/p>\n

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

Not a bad start to a fine late summer day. The butterflies were abundant, notably the large whites which were spiralling above in pairs, and were so regular in their flight patterns that for once I was able to get a photo of them on the wing.<\/p>\n

Large white butterflies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The starlings were active too, that is when the occasional sparrowhawk wasn't cruising overhead.<\/p>\n

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

But the second big surprise of the day came just as the light was beginning to fade. I glanced out and saw a small bird flitting along the beech trees that run the length off the garden. It was keeping in the shadows, just occasionally coming far enough forward in the branches to catch a glimpse of sun. I'm fairly confident that it's a willow warbler, though identifying these small birds is not always easy. The alternative is a chiffchaff, but the flatness of the head suggests the former. <\/p>\n

Willow Warbler<\/s>Chiffchaff (see comments)<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n

And of course I can't not include a photo of the nicked-ear vixen, looking as splendid as ever. She really is a good looking fox.<\/p>\n

Nicked-ear vixen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Camera note: all photos taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens, except the vixen. For that shot I used the EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO IS.<\/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":[980,4],"tags":[33,1144,1128],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","tag-birds","tag-butterfly","tag-fox","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","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=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}