{"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

Ok, this is a rapid bit of catching up. After yesterday'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's not great, but sufficient to identify this as a partridge, most likely the red-legged variety.<\/p>\n

<\/span> Partridge<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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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'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's the photo.<\/p>\n

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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't triggered the trail cam, but was obviously enjoying her sultana feast.<\/p>\n

<\/span> Hedgehog<\/span><\/p>\n

As for the trail cam, last night's footage contained much of the usual clips apart from this sequence which confirmed my suspicions about a pair of foxes. I've posted this via YouTube for a change (Vimeo is playing up).<\/p>\n

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Now I just have to work out who is who from all the other bits and pieces I'm gathering at the moment.
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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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t