{"id":1439,"date":"2009-07-24T00:07:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T23:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1439"},"modified":"2013-11-13T21:39:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:39:12","slug":"it-may-be-common-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/it-may-be-common-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Common by name&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I was out photographing butterflies today, concentrating on the common blues. These are among the smaller and prettiest of our butterflies. They were flitting about in quite good numbers, occasionally settling long enough to be photographed. They seem to like the semi thick undergrowth between woodland and fields.  <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/blue_butterfly_2307094597.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/blue_butterfly_2307094600.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There were plenty of grasshoppers about, and it was while I was looking for them I came across some sacking (modern plastic variety) hidden in the long grass. It was what was on top of it that caught my eye.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/common_lizard_2307094607.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Common Lizard<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Discounting one previous sighting (of a lizard half consumed by a kestrel), this is my first photo of this native species. As you can see I had less than a clear shot at it, and it slid away before I could manage a second. It&#39;s an interesting sighting though, and another reason to head for that particular spot in the future. <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 Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro 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":[992,555],"tags":[1144,1187],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butterfly-insects-2","category-lizard","tag-butterfly","tag-lizard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","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=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}