{"id":1309,"date":"2009-02-13T00:02:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T00:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1309"},"modified":"2013-11-16T00:15:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T00:15:25","slug":"pretty-in-pink-dunnock-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/pretty-in-pink-dunnock-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty in Pink (Dunnock mix)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Continuing the recent theme (which I suspect went largely unnoticed) of using songs for blog titles, here&#39;s a couple of shots of a dunnock I saw today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dunnock_1202093955.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dunnock_1202093955.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"dunnock\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dunnock_1202093949.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dunnock_1202093949.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"dunnock\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And one which isn&#39;t so much pink, but red, and isn&#39;t so much red as obscured&#8230; but a great spotted woodpecker is worth posting whatever the quality of the shot. I was photographing a <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/365\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=667931&amp;picture=9420896\" target=\"_blank\">small sign<\/a> posted on a local allotment when I was distracted by a repetitive drumming coming from the nearby woods. Avoiding as much of the mud as possible, I clambered up to the trees and started to look around. And lo and behold this little thing was high in the trees, masked by twigs, but unmistakable for all that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/gsw_1202093985.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/gsw_1202093985.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"great spotted woodpecker\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Great Spotted Woodpecker, photographed through too many twigs to count<\/span><\/a><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. For the woodpecker I switched from the standard AI focusing to manual as the only way of avoiding the branches that were blocking any clear line of sight.<\/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":[163,115],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-dunnock","tag-woodpecker","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","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=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}