{"id":1389,"date":"2009-05-16T01:05:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T00:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1389"},"modified":"2013-11-14T21:20:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T21:20:12","slug":"a-crow-in-trouble-and-a-very-strange-dragonfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-crow-in-trouble-and-a-very-strange-dragonfly\/","title":{"rendered":"A crow in trouble and a very strange dragonfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I was walking into work early this morning when I came across two birds which, in the vernacular, were &#39;having a right go at each other&#39;. Both were crows, and one was viciously attacking the other, pinning it to the ground and clawing and pecking. I&#39;ve no idea what the fight was about, but it was a very determined and persistent attack. By the time I&#39;d got the camera out, the aggressor had flown off. The victim appears to be a youngish bird (it was about the size of a jackdaw). It had a small wound in its head, and lay stunned for a minute or two. As I approached for a closer look it recovered slightly and flew low for about 100 yards before settling on a grassy mound. When I checked back later it had gone. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/crow_1505092259.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Wounded crow<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Later in the day I headed back over to the pond to see if any dragonflies were about&#8230; and saw this: the largest dragonfly I&#39;m ever likely to encounter.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/wicker_dragonfly_1505092271.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Wicker dragonfly<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/wicker_dragonfly_1505092273.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The group constructing it, Four Seasons, are a local school&#39;s community arts project who also do work with the Sussex Wildlife Trust Young Rangers. So I was right when earlier in the week I said it would be a good year for dragonflies. The placement is intended to create reflections in the pond, and I&#39;m sure the structure will be appreciated by small birds and insects. And dragonflies! A nice surprise on a very quiet day. I&#39;ll get some better shots next week (weather permitting).<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":[980,1],"tags":[26,44,1148],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-crow","tag-dragonfly","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","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=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}