{"id":1453,"date":"2009-08-08T01:08:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T00:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1453"},"modified":"2013-11-13T21:16:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:16:43","slug":"i-was-going-to-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/i-was-going-to-post\/","title":{"rendered":"I was going to post…"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Well the best laid plans etc… I was going to post about these…
<\/span> Ants and larvae<\/span><\/p>\n

And I thought about posting about this…
<\/span> Young squirrel in the garden<\/span><\/p>\n

And tonight I got several photos of this…
<\/span> Moth<\/span><\/p>\n

I even had a close encounter with the vixen…
<\/span> Vixen<\/span><\/p>\n

But in the end all of those previous shots, for me, can't match up to this little sequence. She appeared from the back of the garden, and despite being aware of me paused by the water bowls and grazed briefly on the sultanas. It's easily the most exciting encounter with a badger to date. She was, to my amazement, really quite calm given that I was standing about 15 or so feet away. Some of the shots are cropped, but the first one is a full frame image to give an idea of proximity.
<\/span> Badger<\/span><\/p>\n

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And her departure…
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She seems to have a bit of a limp on the right rear leg. I'll check the trail cam footage tomorrow, but it was obvious on the video captured last night. To be truthful, I didn't notice it too much tonight. I was too intent on not moving or breathing, and hoping I could control the camera!<\/p>\n

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\"Nature<\/a><\/span>
Camera note: all tonight's shots were taken with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro lens, with the exception of the young squirrel which was caught 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":[994,4,991,50],"tags":[240,160,1128,1162,1141],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badger-wildlife","category-foxes","category-insects-2","category-squirrel","tag-ants","tag-badger-2","tag-fox","tag-moth","tag-squirrel","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