{"id":1419,"date":"2009-06-20T21:06:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T20:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1419"},"modified":"2013-11-14T00:21:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T00:21:55","slug":"young-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/young-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Young wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Yesterday (Friday) was one of those slightly odd &#8211; but all too welcome &#8211;  days where although I had little time to go in search of wildlife, some ideal subjects more or less landed in my lap. <\/p>\n<p>The first encounter was late morning. I was heading for a meeting and something caught my attention. I had just passed one of the footpath bridges when I took a second look. There was something just jutting out from beneath the line of the bridge. Something suspiciously like a fox&#39;s leg.<\/p>\n<p>I had a couple of minutes to spare so went back to look. Sure enough, one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2009\/05\/22\/breakfast-with-the-foxes-picture-special\" target=\"_blank\">rabbit-catching vixen&#39;s<\/a> cubs was out in the sunshine. I presume it was waiting for meal to be brought back. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/fox_cub_campus_1906098590.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Fox cub by its den<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/fox_cub_campus_1906098611.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#39;t able to stay around to wait for lunch to be delivered, and the cub had much the same idea and soon disappeared back down the fox hole.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/fox_cub_campus_1906098624.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I did take a look about an hour later, but all was quiet. <\/p>\n<p>Late afternoon I was working on my computer and glanced outside. A pair of pied wagtail fledglings were sitting on the low wall of an ornamental pond. I opened my window and took a couple of shots.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pwt_fledgling_1906098650.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Pied wagtail fledglings<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I carried on working, but kept half an eye on what was going on outside. Sure enough an adult appeared. After a moment or two it decided I was sufficiently far away not be a concern and got on with the serious business of feeding the youngsters.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pwt_fledgling_1906098699.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Grubs up<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pwt_fledgling_1906098700.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pwt_fledgling_1906098701.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pwt_fledgling_1906098721.jpg' \/><\/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: 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":[980,4],"tags":[1142,1128,120],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","tag-cub","tag-fox","tag-pied-wagtail","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","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=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}