{"id":1427,"date":"2009-07-02T23:07:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T22:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1427"},"modified":"2013-11-13T22:11:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T22:11:12","slug":"early-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/early-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The heat wave continues, and now, pushing midnight, the temperature is still in the lower 70s (20s for those who prefer centigrade). Early morning is the best time of day to be out. It&#39;s still relatively cool then, and is certainly favoured by the woodland birds. Such as this cock linnet, which was happily surveying the passing insect life.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/linnet_0207090965_b.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Linnet<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Another early bird was this vibrant yellowhammer.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/yellowhammer_0207090961_b.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Yellowhammer<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And even  the kestrels were out and about.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/kestrel_0207090929_b.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Kestrel<\/span><\/p>\n<p>During the morning a sparrowhawk flew overhead (I could see it from my window), and the wagtails were hopping along the ornamental pond. But it was the butterflies and corvids that caught my eye at lunchtime. Precious little else was venturing out into the heat. I think these are large whites.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/white_butterfly_0207091037_b.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Large whites<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/white_butterfly_0207091045_b.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Next a photo of one of the many rooks I saw. They were all rather splendid, but this one did me a favour of gliding by at a fairly sedate pace.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/rook_0207090988_b.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Rook<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This last shot has me puzzled. I saw it in the distance, sticking out of the treetops. Judging size is always difficult, but it just doesn&#39;t look right for a crow. Is this a raven?<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/raven_query_0207091061_b.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Raven?<\/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 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":[980],"tags":[33,1144],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-butterfly","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","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=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}