{"id":1424,"date":"2009-06-30T00:06:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T23:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1424"},"modified":"2013-11-13T22:14:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T22:14:42","slug":"mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/mortality\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Most days watching nature is a wonderful affirmation of life, but today brought out the other side of the coin. These first two shots were taken a few minutes apart, early this morning.<\/p>\n

The first is a juvenile green woodpecker. It was beneath a building and I suspect a window collision as the cause, though there were no visible signs on the building above.
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Just a hundred yards away I came across a second fatality, possibly the result of a fall (it was beneath a tree).
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Lunchtime I went in search of more pleasant things, and thought I 'd succeeded with this thrush.
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The thrush was quietly feeding along a country lane, but a few seconds after this shot it hopped over the hedgerow into a sunlit field. I stepped across to take a better shot, but before I could even raise the camera a sparrowhawk had dropped from an overhanging tree and with the merest flurry of feather and two muted squeals, it was gone (and so was the thush). It lasted less than 2 seconds from start to finish. <\/p>\n

Finally, I'm still working on stereoscopic images. They will improve as I get more practice, and I will almost certainly go cross-eyed in the process. But today's effort is I think an improvement on the butterfly (at least I intended to take this). As before, focus in front of the image (click to enlarge it) and the hedge should pop out into 3 dimensions. It can take a bit of practice, but once you get the hang of seeing them it's quite easy.<\/p>\n

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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":[551,550,1141,55,115],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-uncategorized","tag-3d","tag-mortality","tag-squirrel","tag-thrush","tag-woodpecker","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