{"id":1308,"date":"2009-02-10T23:02:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T23:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1308"},"modified":"2013-11-16T00:16:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T00:16:49","slug":"regents-park-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/regents-park-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Regent&#8217;s Park, London"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Work today meant another trip to London, this time to a conference centre located in Regent&#39;s Park. Nice location with a good view of the Post Office Tower as well as the park, but the weather was dull (raining) when I arrived this morning. It had not much improved when I looked out at lunchtime, though these delightful pochards added some colour to the lake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/red_crested_pochard_1002093658.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/red_crested_pochard_1002093658.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Red crested pochard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=688633&amp;picture=9405062\" target=\"_blank\">ducks<\/a> and gulls of course, but more of a surprise were a <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=688633&amp;picture=9405066\" target=\"_blank\">pair of black swans<\/a>, one of which was taking a lunchtime stretch. These aren&#39;t native, but there are a number of breeding pairs in the wild.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/black_swan_1002093668.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/black_swan_1002093668.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"black swan\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Black swan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was when I was leaving in the afternoon and heading back through York Gate to go to the station that I saw what I really looking for: herons. There were several sitting around the edge of the lake, utterly unperturbed by the constant human traffic around them. That&#39;s one of the benefits of photographing wildlife in the city: the instinctive caution of the animals has all but gone. The down-side is the risk of being mobbed by pigeons!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/heron_1002093702.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/heron_1002093702.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"heron\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Heron<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/heron_juvenile_1002093728.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/heron_juvenile_1002093728.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"juvenile heron\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Juvenile heron<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/heron_1002093773.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/heron_1002093773.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"heron in a tree\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Heron in a tree<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/post_office_tower_1002093785.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Post Office Tower seen from Regent&#39;s Park<\/span><\/p>\n<p><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 EF70-300mm f\/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM lens, which is ideal for wandering around in urban locations. Much less intrusive than the 100-400 and fine for shots when you can get reasonably close to the subject.<\/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":[1003,989],"tags":[1179,74,514,515,339],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-heron","tag-london","tag-pochard","tag-regents-park","tag-swan","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","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=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}