{"id":1519,"date":"2009-11-07T23:11:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T23:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1519"},"modified":"2013-11-12T21:34:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T21:34:49","slug":"kestrels-in-the-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/kestrels-in-the-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Kestrels in the Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It feels like it&#39;s been quite a while since I had a really good afternoon with the kestrels, but the sun was bright today and I had a good feeling that my luck would be in. Sure enough a female was out hunting in the valley. Or rather, she was hunting all over Sheepcote Valley and led me a merry dance as I followed her around. Good exercise though!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrel09\/album\/slides\/kestrel_0711090193.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/kestrel_0711090193.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"kestrel\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During one of her hovers she attracted the casual attention of some gulls. They didn&#39;t mob. It was more a case of investigating and moving on. In this shot the gull is a little closer to the camera (but not too much), but it gives a rough approximation of the difference in size.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrel09\/album\/slides\/kestrel_gull_0711090217.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/kestrel_gull_0711090217.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"kestrel and gull\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrel09\/album\/slides\/kestrel_0711090243.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/kestrel_0711090243.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"kestrel\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrel09\/album\/slides\/kestrel_0711090300.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/kestrel_0711090300.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"kestrel\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrel09\/album\/slides\/kestrel_0711090339.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/kestrel_0711090339.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"kestrel\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are a few more shots from today in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/kestrel09\/album\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kestrels 2009<\/a> album. You need to go to the end of the album for today&#39;s shots.<\/p>\n<p>The other reason I headed to this location was that last time I was there I saw a stoat. The moment was too fleeting to photograph it, but I have a fair idea of its home territory and went to have another look today. I saw a movement, probably the stoat, but even more fleeting than the previous time. So I can&#39;t really claim a sighting, just enough of a hint to encourage me to go back when I have the chance. I suspect I&#39;ll need to sit and wait&#8230; and wait. Or set the camera up on a tripod with a radio trigger and hide myself away. But I&#39;m sure it&#39;s there.<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],"tags":[1152],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","tag-kestrel","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","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=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}