{"id":1245,"date":"2008-11-15T01:11:56","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T01:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1245"},"modified":"2013-11-19T00:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T00:11:00","slug":"woodpecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/woodpecker\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodpecker"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Not many shots today, but I did come across a woodpecker. I don&#39;t usually have much luck with these, but today I was persistent and fortune was with me. <\/p>\n<p>I first noticed it when it shot off into the distance, a blur of yellow-green. I lost sight of it for a while, but then spotted it flying into a small group of trees. As I approached it took the wing. I followed it to another group of trees. Off it shot, eventually coming to land on a nearby fence-post. By this time I was protected by the trees and was able to approach without being seen.<\/p>\n<p>As for taking the shot, the light was poor. I set the camera to ISO 800, with the aperture reasonably wide at f\/7.1. This produced a shutter speed of 1\/200s, which is somewhat slow for a full zoom (even with image stabilization). But it was about the best I could do. To avoid camera shake I used a monopod. These aren&#39;t as stable as a tripod, but the convenience and lack of weight makes them ideal for walking photography (tripods come into their own if you plan on staying in one spot). I managed about 10 or 11 frames before he took off again. This is probably the best of them. I&#39;ve cropped the frame by around 50%, and used noise reduction on the background.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s a male, the identifying feature being the bright red flash across the &#39;moustache&#39; below the eye.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gwp_1411080985.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gwp_1411080985.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Green Woodpecker<\/span><\/a><br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: shot 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],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-woodpecker","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","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=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}