{"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

Yesterday (Friday) was one of those slightly odd – but all too welcome – 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

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's leg.<\/p>\n

I had a couple of minutes to spare so went back to look. Sure enough, one of the rabbit-catching vixen's<\/a> cubs was out in the sunshine. I presume it was waiting for meal to be brought back.
<\/span> Fox cub by its den<\/span><\/p>\n

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I wasn'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.
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I did take a look about an hour later, but all was quiet. <\/p>\n

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.
<\/span> Pied wagtail fledglings<\/span><\/p>\n

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.
<\/span> Grubs up<\/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":[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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t