{"id":1517,"date":"2009-11-05T23:11:55","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T23:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1517"},"modified":"2013-11-12T21:36:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T21:36:52","slug":"pacing-yourself-roe-deer-and-woodpecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/pacing-yourself-roe-deer-and-woodpecker\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacing yourself (roe deer and woodpecker)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The early mornings are still proving the best time of day to be outside, and today I was lucky enough to stumble upon one of the roe deer which had wandered over to 'my' side of the fields. So for once I wasn't struggling to photograph her against the sun. She was grazing. Very carefully I edged along the side of the field to get a little closer. I take about 10 paces at a time (take a photo) and then another 10 paces. And so on. That way I always have roughly the best shot I'm likely to get. It took about 5 minutes to cover 100 yards. My name is not Bolt. But hers might be!<\/p>\n

\"roeRoe Deer<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n

And then I took another 10 paces. And she was off!<\/p>\n

\"roeRoe Deer running<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n

\"roeRoe Deer running<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n

\"roe<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n

The decent light had all but vanished by lunchtime when I saw one of the local green woodpeckers. Once again I used the 10 pace\/photo\/10 pace technique to get into range. <\/p>\n

\"greenGreen Woodpecker<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n

I'm keeping my eyes open for the campus foxes. There have been several reports of activity, though mainly early morning or in the evening. <\/p>\n

It's still quiet out in the garden, but I did catch a glimpse of the bold vixen and a badger on the trail cam last night (not together); and a couple of nights ago one of the other foxes crossed the garden at full pelt. I missed that, but I did manage to photograph the full moon. <\/p>\n

\"moon\"Moon<\/span><\/a>
\"Nature<\/a><\/span>
Camera note: today's shots all taken with the Canon 40D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS. The moon was photographed with the EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM 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":[980,440,1031],"tags":[1181,115],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-deer","category-moon-landscape-2","tag-deer","tag-woodpecker","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t