{"id":1403,"date":"2009-05-29T00:05:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T23:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1403"},"modified":"2013-11-14T18:46:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T18:46:27","slug":"painted-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/painted-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"Painted Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->If you&#39;re in the south east of England you can&#39;t fail to have noticed the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/8068050.stm\" target=\"_blank\">blizzard of painted ladies<\/a> that has appeared over the past week. They&#39;re everywhere, and it&#39;s impossible to step outside without seeing large numbers of these delightful butterflies. Although always among the more common visitors, the sheer number this year is exceptional.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/painted_lady_butterfly_2805095090.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">A pair of painted ladies<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/painted_lady_butterfly_2805095099.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">A pair with wings closed<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/painted_lady_butterfly_2805095129.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">A closer look<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/painted_lady_butterfly_2805095156.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">A different perspective<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The damsel flies are also beginning to emerge. There were several dancing outside my window at work today, but none so far in the garden. More pond squatting looks likely over the next few weeks as I go in search of photos.<\/p>\n<p>No luck with cub-watching tonight, though Bold did pass through several times, and the cub did put in an appearance on the trail cam overnight.<span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fox_bold_vixen_2805095215.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">The Bold Vixen<\/span><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: the two shots of a pair of painted ladies were taken with the EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens. I used the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro for the others, and added a touch of flash (in-built) on the final shot. The vixen was photographed with the EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO 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":[992,4],"tags":[1144,1128,544],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butterfly-insects-2","category-foxes","tag-butterfly","tag-fox","tag-painted-lady","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","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=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}