{"id":1294,"date":"2009-01-27T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T00:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1294"},"modified":"2013-11-17T18:37:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T18:37:25","slug":"falmer-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/falmer-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Falmer pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It&#39;s a while since I&#39;ve spent any time at Falmer Pond. It&#39;s a large &#39;village green&#39; pond, and is home to a variety of water fowl. Today the black-headed gulls were dominating. There are a lot of them around at the moment, and they were all too willing to flock for a few crumbs of bread that a young family were throwing to them. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/black_headed_gull_2601091246.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/black_headed_gull_2601091246.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"black headed gulls\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Black headed gulls<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/black_headed_gull_2601091201.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/black_headed_gull_2601091201.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"black headed gulls\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/black_headed_gull_2601091243.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/black_headed_gull_2601091243.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"264\" alt=\"black headed gulls\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>As well as the gulls, there were several coots around.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/coot_2601091118.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/coot_2601091118.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"coot\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Coot<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And of course no visit to a pond is complete without the ubiquitous mallards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ducks_2601091332.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ducks_2601091332.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"mallard ducks\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Mr &amp; Mrs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still no fox updates, other than a discarded egg shell in the garden. So they are around, but still being evasive. I spent the best part of an hour outside tonight, standing motionless with the camera pre-focused (I won&#39;t even risk using a torch for fear of startling them). No luck though, and I eventually gave up as the frost started forming beneath my feet. There&#39;ll be other days, and warmer nights&#8230;<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: 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":[989],"tags":[1175,1160,49],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-coot","tag-duck","tag-gulls","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","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=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}