{"id":1375,"date":"2009-04-28T23:04:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T22:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1375"},"modified":"2013-11-14T21:36:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T21:36:36","slug":"a-quiet-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-quiet-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A quiet day"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

It's been one of those days where the weather hasn't quite been sure what it's doing. And neither has the wildlife. This morning, early, I went to one of my local haunts near work. The yellowhammers were being difficult and successfully evaded the camera. A robin was singing high in a tree. A distant rock in a field turned out, on closer inspection, to be a female pheasant. And a cat sat calmly in the middle of the road.
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By lunchtime the rain had arrived, but it was moving through quickly and I avoided most of it. The light had that strange hyper reality when the sky is blue in one corner, and deep grey in the other. Colours were unusually vibrant where the light fell.
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A few gulls and pigeons were about, and a selection of local corvids, but it was quiet. I photographed the spring blossom.
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The walk was pleasant, and it wasn't until I was back at my office that I photographed any wildlife. She was sitting in the pond right outside my window.
<\/span> Female Mallard<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Nature<\/a><\/span>
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":[36,1003,1004,989],"tags":[205,1160,134],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cat","category-landscape-2","category-south-downs-national-park-landscape-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-blossom","tag-duck","tag-landscape","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