{"id":1234,"date":"2008-10-25T00:10:06","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T23:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1234"},"modified":"2013-11-19T00:25:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T00:25:26","slug":"bad-photo-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/bad-photo-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes it’s worth taking a photo even if you don’t know what it is you’re looking at…"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Sometimes it happens. I headed back out to the fields where I'd seen the deer earlier in the week. They weren't around. Indeed there was nothing much at all in evidence.
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A few pigeons swept overhead, and some crows circled aimlessly. A magpie flew by carrying a twig. In the shrubs along the edge of the fields a small flock of yellowhammers were skitting about and doing their level best to avoid the camera.<\/p>\n

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

A jay put in a brief appearance. Not my best shot, but the moment was fleeting.<\/p>\n

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

I took a few other assorted shots, but while it was great to be outside I didn't think I'd seen anything striking. That's fine. Most of the interesting shots amount to a few seconds of activity spread over an hour or more of looking; and the looking has a pleasure of its own. But I was wrong about having seen nothing unusual.<\/p>\n

When I was going through the shots the evening I came across a sequence I have no recollection taking, other than a vague memory of having grabbed a quick burst of an unidentified small bird as it flew past. They're not the greatest shots I've ever taken, but I was stunned to see that somehow I'd managed to photograph a great spotted woodpecker in full flight. :faint: I only wish I'd been aware of the fact at the time. It seems odd having the photographic evidence of something that I didn't see!<\/p>\n

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I managed three frames in all. The others are here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No badger tonight (yet), but the nicked-ear vixen passed through the garden, too quickly for a photo but I was pleased to see her at all after several very quiet days.
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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":[980,1043,1],"tags":[467,115,471],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-farming-2","category-uncategorized","tag-jay","tag-woodpecker","tag-yellowhammer","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