{"id":1432,"date":"2009-07-10T00:07:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T23:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1432"},"modified":"2013-11-13T22:03:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T22:03:23","slug":"its-time-for-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/its-time-for-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s time for cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, not the sound of leather on willow, but something closer to a dentist’s drill. I saw this beauty while out photographing butterflies. It’s a Roesel’s bush cricket, the first I’ve seen and quite stunning.<\/p>\n

\"roesel'sRoesel’s bush cricket<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The butterflies were plentiful, with a good variety of species sharing a small thicket at the edge of field.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span> Meadow Brown (upper) and Comma (lower)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span> Gatekeeper. Note the two white dots which distinguish this from the similar meadow brown<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span> Red Admiral (a rare sighting this year)<\/span><\/p>\n

And one more from yesterday. About the only thing that distracted me from the swallows…
\n\"\"<\/span> Heron<\/span>
\n\"Nature<\/a><\/span>
\nCamera note: the heron and the photo of the two butterflies were taken with the EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens. The rest were taken with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro lens (and the in-built flash on the EOS 40D).<\/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":[992,1048,989],"tags":[1144,435,1179],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butterfly-insects-2","category-cricket-insects-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-butterfly","tag-cricket","tag-heron","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