{"id":1408,"date":"2009-06-05T00:06:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T23:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1408"},"modified":"2013-11-14T18:39:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T18:39:07","slug":"emperors-damsels-and-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/emperors-damsels-and-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Emperors, Damsels and Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

In my previous post I mentioned that I'd seen an emperor dragonfly. Today I saw four or five around the pond, which constitutes a mini population explosion. As ever, flight shots of these will take time, but they did settle on the vegetation at the edge of the pond which gave me some reasonable opportunities for photos. <\/p>\n

<\/span> Emperor dragonfly (male)<\/span><\/p>\n

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There were various damselflies out as well, including common blues and blue-tailed varieties. This is a female common blue.
<\/span> Female common blue damselfly<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> Blue-tailed damselfly<\/span><\/p>\n

Those were at lunchtime. In the morning, before work, I came across a small clutch of young squirrels out enjoying the early sunshine. They were moderately bold, though if I got too close quickly ran up into the trees.
<\/span> Young grey squirrel<\/span><\/p>\n

The other babies were the herring gull chicks (of course). Just one photo of them tonight.
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<\/object>And not forgetting the baby fox \ud83d\ude09<\/span>
\"Nature<\/a><\/span>
Camera note: the dragonflies were all photographed with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro lens. The chicks and squirrel were caught 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":[77,989],"tags":[1177,1170,1148,1128,1141],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dragonfly","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-chick","tag-damselfly","tag-dragonfly","tag-fox","tag-squirrel","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