{"id":1292,"date":"2009-01-23T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T00:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1292"},"modified":"2013-11-17T18:40:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T18:40:17","slug":"its-been-a-slow-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/its-been-a-slow-week\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s been a slow week"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Apart from yesterday when I was in London<\/a>, this has been a miserable week for the weather. Dull, damp days, and rainy nights. I risked the light drizzle at lunchtime today, and while not exactly a spectacular, I did spot a sparrowhawk gliding over the fields.
Sparrowhawk<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n

Nearer to the ground, a bold female blackbird allowed me to get close enough for a few frames before she vanished into the thicker undergrowth.
Female blackbird<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

It's been too wet to go outside to try to catch a glimpse of the local foxes, but the signs are that they are still around somewhere. This is beginning to turn into the longest fox-free period (photographically) in over 3 years of documenting the garden foxes. I did manage a few photos on New Year's Eve<\/a>, but since then, nothing beyond some very brief observations and this one shot<\/a> from January 2nd.
\"Nature<\/a><\/span>
Camera note: both bird shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The vixen was photographed with the EF24-105mm f\/4L IS USM 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":[33,1128],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-fox","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