{"id":1536,"date":"2009-12-19T01:12:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T01:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1536"},"modified":"2013-11-12T20:44:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T20:44:04","slug":"a-snowy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-snowy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A snowy day…"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Being perched on the top of the Downs, with hills leading out in all directions, things grind to a halt when we have a heavy snow fall. Roads are treacherous, and the elevation here means that the temperature is always a little lower than the headline figure so the thaw takes longer. The snow does, however, add something rather special to the landscape.
<\/span> View from the garden<\/span><\/p>\n

The smaller birds were busy in the garden (I filled the feeders for them).
<\/span> Blackbird (female)<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span> Blue tit and sparrow<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> It's a…<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> …robin!<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> And finally, a snowman in a local park<\/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, except the snowman which was taken with the EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO 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":[980,1003,16,1],"tags":[33,1136],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-landscape-2","category-snow","category-uncategorized","tag-birds","tag-snow","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