{"id":1297,"date":"2009-01-29T23:01:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T23:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1297"},"modified":"2013-11-17T18:34:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T18:34:11","slug":"mallards-mating-photo-sequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/mallards-mating-photo-sequence\/","title":{"rendered":"Mallards Mating (photo sequence)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

I took these at Falmer Pond today. Despite the cold weather, spring is obviously in the air.<\/p>\n

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That was an extract. The complete sequence is in my Mallards Mating<\/a> album. Oh, and for the technically inclined, the complete sequence of shots took just 25 seconds, of which mating lasted just 10 seconds. For a video sequence you'll need to head over to Neil's UK Wildlife Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And just a quick fox update. Still no photos (though I'm developing a strategy!), but I did see the stranger today. He (I'm convinced it's a male) is a slightly tatty thing, with a thin brush. He shot across the front of the garden as I was getting the camera gear ready (he's taunting me now!) and I got a good (but very brief) view of him through the window. The strategy involves setting up the camera at the bottom of the garden on a tripod, placing an egg at the far end of the garden, manually focusing on the egg and then hiding behind the tripod in the hope of an appearance. It hasn't worked yet, but the egg did disappear while I was inside sorting out tonight's photos. So it's not scared of the tripod. Just of me! I'll try again tomorrow.
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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":[15,989],"tags":[509,1128],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behaviour","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-ducks-mating","tag-fox","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","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=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}