{"id":1373,"date":"2009-04-25T00:04:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T23:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1373"},"modified":"2013-11-14T21:43:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T21:43:03","slug":"peahen-and-a-swallow-and-a-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/peahen-and-a-swallow-and-a-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Peahen and a Swallow and a Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->One of the irregular sightings I have on my way to work is a peahen. I&#39;ve seen her before, but there&#39;s always something startling about coming across such a large bird wandering along a country lane. She was out this morning and I stopped to take a few shots. I think she must belong to one of the local farms, but is free-roaming and likes a morning stroll.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/peahen_2404090916.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/peahen_2404090916.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"peahen\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Peahen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/peahen_2404090923.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">By my car<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I headed back in that general direction at lunchtime. The peahen wasn&#39;t around, but the horses were out in the paddocks. This one had taken a fancy to a fence post.<\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/horse_2404090982.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Overhead the swallows were active, enjoying the sunshine and perhaps signalling an early start to summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/swallow_2404091032.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/swallow_2404091032.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"swallow\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Swallow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/swallow_2404091007.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/swallow_2404091007.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"390\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Swallow catching an insect<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And no, I hadn&#39;t noticed the insect when I took the shot. It was a nice surprise though to find it on the sequence.<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 400mm f\/5.6L USM 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":[980,167],"tags":[1155,439,1165],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-horse","tag-horse","tag-peahen","tag-swallow","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","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=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}