{"id":1299,"date":"2009-02-01T23:02:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T23:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1299"},"modified":"2013-11-16T00:26:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T00:26:30","slug":"winter-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/winter-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Well winter has returned. The south of England is experiencing heavy snow falls (ok, moderate snow falls that the rest of the world would dismiss in a moment) and while the brunt is being borne by the Kent coast, we&#39;ve seen a decent layer of snow cover Sussex.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/snow_0102092040.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Earlier this evening<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Snow is deceptive, and it didn&#39;t actually feel too cold out there. That&#39;s partly due to the lack of wind, but despite that my hands eventually told me it was too cold to stay outside. I&#39;d been watching in vain for a fox to appear. And it did, but only after I&#39;d returned to the warmth of the house :insane: And just in case you&#39;re interested, I take reasonable care to protect the camera from the snow. Water is not a digital camera&#39;s friend, so protecting equipment is essential. That&#39;s not to say that a brief flurry will kill a camera, but some basic precautions are sensible. In this instance these amounted to a large freezer bag with a hole cut out for the lens to peek through, and a small cut in the top to allow the flash unit to sit on its shoe. The flash unit had another small bag draped over it.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was dry, and quite bright in the morning which is when I took this shot of a dunnock in the garden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dunnock_3101091941.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dunnock_3101091941.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"dunnock\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Dunnock<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The light had drifted away by the afternoon. I did pop down to Rottingdean to see if the fulmars were still about. They were, but not in the same numbers as on previous weekends, and far fewer were skimming the cliffs. It was one of my quieter trips down there for a while, but as I was leaving I glimpsed a small flock of ringed plovers hugging the shore line.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/ringed_plovers_3101092002.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/ringed_plovers_3101092002.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"302\" alt=\"ringed plovers\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Ringed plovers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More snow is forecast for tomorrow, but I would expect most of it to clear by Tuesday or Wednesday. As I said at the beginning, the amount of snow wouldn&#39;t cause any loss of sleep in Eastern Europe or North America, but it&#39;s our snow (actually, the winds are reported to be coming in from Russia, so does that make it Russian snow?) and it&#39;s more than enough to cause major transport disruption. We&#39;re simply not equipped to deal with it.<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: snow scene photgraphed with a (well wrapped) EF 24-105 F4L IS USM lens. The plovers and dunnock were caught 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":[980,16,989],"tags":[33,1136],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-snow","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-snow","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","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=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}