{"id":1433,"date":"2009-07-13T00:07:44","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T23:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1433"},"modified":"2013-11-13T22:01:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T22:01:39","slug":"finally-the-sunshine-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/finally-the-sunshine-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, the sunshine returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->After the recent dismal weather, today turned out to be bright, moderately warm and just a touch windy. The butterflies were back in the garden, most noticeably a pair of painted ladies. Their colour has deepened slightly from the early season visitors, but their willingness to be photographed is undiminished.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/painted_lady_butterfly_1207092585.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/painted_lady_butterfly_1207092585.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"386\" alt=\"painted lady\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/painted_lady_butterfly_1207092600.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/painted_lady_butterfly_1207092600.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"painted lady\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/painted_lady_butterfly_1207092605.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/painted_lady_butterfly_1207092605.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"painted lady\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The butterflies were doing their best to shelter from the wind, and in the relative security of the garden they didn&#39;t have to contend with the worst of it. Not so, the coastal birds.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/sea_1207092615.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/gulls_1207092643.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>It was somewhat less windswept a few hundred yards inland, where we came across a family of moorhens on a village pond.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/moorhen_1207092847.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Moorhen feeding its young<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/moorhen_1207092857.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The day ended back on the downs, trying in vain to find some shelter from the winds. The kestrels were about, hunting over the long grass with a fair degree of success. Usually they carry prey in their talons, so it was a surprise to see this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrel09\/album\/slides\/kestrel_1207093019.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/kestrel_1207093019.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"kestrel with prey\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrel09\/album\/slides\/kestrel_1207093024.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/kestrel_1207093024.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"kestrel with prey\" \/><\/a><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: the butterflies were photographed with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro lens. The rest were taken with the EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM.<\/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":[990,980,992,1044],"tags":[1144,68,1152,1172],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","category-butterfly-insects-2","category-coastal","tag-butterfly","tag-gull","tag-kestrel","tag-moorhen","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","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=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}