{"id":1319,"date":"2009-02-21T23:02:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T23:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1319"},"modified":"2013-11-15T23:45:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T23:45:46","slug":"wakehurst-place-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wakehurst-place-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Wakehurst Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We took advantage of the sunshine today to head over to Wakehurst Place, the Sussex home of Kew Garden. It&#39;s still early in the year, and the gardens have not yet burst into colour but there is still plenty to see. More photos from today in the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/show.dml?id=700885\" target=\"_blank\">Wakehurst Place 2009<\/a> album.<\/p>\n<p>There were ducks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/duck_2102095269.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/duck_2102095269.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"ducks at Wakehurst Place\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And there were pheasants&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/pheasant_2102095095.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/pheasant_2102095095.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"pheasant at wakehurst place\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And there were robins&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/robin_2102095327.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/robin_2102095327.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"robin\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the stars of today&#39;s visit were the moorhens which swam, preened, clambered and prowled&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/moorhen_2102095100.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/moorhen_2102095100.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"moorhen at Wakehurst Place\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/moorhen_2102095220.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/moorhen_2102095220.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"moorhen at Wakehurst Place\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/moorhen_2102095249.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/moorhen_2102095249.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"moorhen at Wakehurst Place\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/moorhen_2102095302.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/moorhen_2102095302.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"moorhen at Wakehurst Place\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The one unrecorded sighting I should mention was a kingfisher which flew just over the trees while we were watching the moorhen by the lake. It was gone in a flash, but was the nearest and clearest view I&#39;ve yet had of one. <\/p>\n<p>Still no more on the foxes&#8230; still watching and still and waiting&#8230; <i>Update: just after posting this I saw the fox in the garden through the window. It tolerated a torch being shone for a number of seconds, and then retreated slightly and continued watching. No photo though.<\/i><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":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,989],"tags":[33,334],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-wakehurst-place","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}