{"id":1505,"date":"2009-10-17T00:10:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T23:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1505"},"modified":"2013-11-12T21:55:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T21:55:05","slug":"stanmer-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/stanmer-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanmer Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

As a change from my normal routine I headed into Stanmer Park today. It's wooded parkland, more manicured than much of the surrounding downland, and it boasts a wide and wonderful array of trees. In the centre of the park there's a small village and church.
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\"stanmerStanmer Church<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

And near the church there's a pond. And where there's a pond, there are ducks.<\/p>\n

\"stanmerStanmer Pond<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Along the edge of the park, cattle graze, and the mothers feed their young.<\/p>\n

\"calfCalf suckling<\/span><\/p>\n

And of course there were birds, including several mistle thrush which are usually heard before seen. Their call is a distinctive loud rattle, quite unlike the more melodius sounds of the Song Thrush.
<\/span> Mistle thrush<\/span>
\"Nature<\/a><\/span>
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":[1043,1003,1004],"tags":[596,150,513,159],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farming-2","category-landscape-2","category-south-downs-national-park-landscape-2","tag-calf","tag-ducks","tag-mistle-thrush","tag-stanmer-park","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