{"id":1504,"date":"2009-10-16T00:10:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T23:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1504"},"modified":"2013-11-12T21:56:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T21:56:31","slug":"its-there-if-you-can-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/its-there-if-you-can-see-it\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s there if you can see it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->All the photos in this post will enlarge if you click on them. And you may need to, because otherwise you might just not see anything at all.<\/p>\n<p>The day started out in the fields near work. I&#39;d gone in search of deer, but they were being evasive. I started to take a few landscapes of the early morning light when, deep in the valley, I saw a&#8230; Well without the benefit of the lens I would barely have seen anything at all. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fox_wild_1510096975.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fox_wild_1510096975.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"fox&quot;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Small, distant and tucked away in the shadows, it was nonetheless unmistakeably a fox. I edged a little closer and if you were doubtful from that first image, this should confirm things. Like Stumpy, the garden fox, this one also seems to have a somewhat truncated brush ::right: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fox_wild_1510096990.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fox_wild_1510096990.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"fox\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I returned to the same spot at lunchtime. Well you never know your luck, but of course the fox was nowhere to be seen. A few of the smaller birds were disappearing in and out of the hedgerow, and overhead a jay crossed the sky.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jay_1510097025.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jay_1510097025.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"jay\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got some nice close-ups of robins, but the main event once again played out on the far side of the valley. A lone buzzard came in low across the fields, attracting the attention of a pair of crows who proceeded to chase it away from their territory. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/buzzard_1510097102.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/buzzard_1510097102.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"buzzard\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Across the field they chased<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/buzzard_1510097106.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/buzzard_1510097106.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"291\" alt=\"buzzard\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Past the horses<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/buzzard_1510097107.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/buzzard_1510097107.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"313\" alt=\"buzzard\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Along the woods<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/buzzard_1510097111.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/buzzard_1510097111.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"buzzard\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Until the buzzard emerges over the next field<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/buzzard_1510097116.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/buzzard_1510097116.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"329\" alt=\"buzzard\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">And sweeps away across the open countryside <\/span><\/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: all shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS 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":[990,4,1004],"tags":[179,1128],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-foxes","category-south-downs-national-park-landscape-2","tag-buzzard","tag-fox","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","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=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}