{"id":1345,"date":"2009-03-26T00:03:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T00:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1345"},"modified":"2013-11-15T00:03:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T00:03:21","slug":"two-more-foxes-a-partridge-a-hedgehog-and-a-tadpole-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/two-more-foxes-a-partridge-a-hedgehog-and-a-tadpole-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more foxes, a partridge, a hedgehog and a tadpole update!"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Ok, this is a rapid bit of catching up. After yesterday&#39;s excitement I headed back to the fields this morning. It was dull and very little was about, but as I was heading in to work along a country lane I noticed two unusual birds trotting along the side of the road. I followed them for a short way until they decided to cross the road in front of me. I stopped and grabbed a shot through the car window. It&#39;s not great, but sufficient to identify this as a partridge, most likely the red-legged variety.<\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/red_legged_partridge_2503091586.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Partridge<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I worked through lunch, so have very few shots from the day, but this evening spent a little bit of time in the garden, photographing the tadpoles. They are abundant, massed on the surface of the pond.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/tadpoles_2503091638.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/tadpoles_2503091638.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"tadpoles\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/tadpoles_2503091633.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/tadpoles_2503091633.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"tadpoles\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I was peering into the weed, I saw what appears to be a pair of near albino tadpoles,  which are extremely rare. I certainly didn&#39;t notice any white spawn, so these may not be full-fledge albinos. And the odds of finding them again in all that mass are vanishingly low. Anyway here&#39;s the photo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/albino_tadpole_2503091642.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/albino_tadpole_2503091642.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"albino tadpoles\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Albino tadpoles?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Later, while attempting to watch for foxes we had just about given up when I made one last check at the top of the garden and saw this beauty. She hadn&#39;t triggered the trail cam, but was obviously enjoying her sultana feast.<\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/hedgehog_2503091651.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Hedgehog<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As for the trail cam, last night&#39;s footage contained much of the usual clips apart from this sequence which confirmed my suspicions about a pair of foxes. I&#39;ve posted this via YouTube for a change (Vimeo is playing up).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aligncenter\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/38WrVyh_Hsk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"never\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/38WrVyh_Hsk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" allowscriptaccess=\"never\" \/><\/object><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now I just have to work out who is who from all the other bits and pieces I&#39;m gathering at the moment.<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: the partridge was taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens, the tadpoles with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro, and the hedgehog with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM. The trail cam footage was captured with the Stealth Trail Camera GL80.<\/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":[980,4,282,278],"tags":[1128,1168,524,1167],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-hedgehog","category-tadpole","tag-fox","tag-hedgehog","tag-partridge","tag-tadpole","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","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=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}