{"id":1350,"date":"2009-03-31T00:03:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T23:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1350"},"modified":"2013-11-14T23:57:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T23:57:54","slug":"distant-raptors-its-just-a-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/distant-raptors-its-just-a-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Distant Raptors &#8211; It&#8217;s just a hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Yes they&#39;re back after their winter holidays. I saw a pair fly over the garden on Sunday. As ever they were too far off for more than a quick reference shot, but nice to see them back over the Sussex skies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/hobby_2903092124.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/hobby_2903092124.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"hobby\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Hobby<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They weren&#39;t the only raptors about. A pair of sparrowhawks circled overhead, until the local gulls ganged up on them and sent them packing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=707447&amp;picture=9817507\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sparrowhawk_x2_2903092103.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"sparrowhawks\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">A pair of sparrowhawks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning provided yet another opportunity for a ridiculously long shot. This time, it was a pair of buzzards coming in to land in a field. This is one of them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/buzzard_3003092250.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/buzzard_3003092250.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"buzzard\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Buzzard coming in to land<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To complete the set I have managed one rather better shot recently (not forgetting the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2009\/03\/28\/a-first-sighting-of-major-proportions\" target=\"_blank\">owl<\/a>), which takes me back to Saturday when I grabbed a shot of a passing kestrel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/kestrel_2803092068.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/kestrel_2803092068.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"kestrel\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Kestrel<\/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.<\/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":[990],"tags":[179,434,1152,527,1154],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","tag-buzzard","tag-hobby","tag-kestrel","tag-raptors","tag-sparrowhawk","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","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=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}