{"id":1542,"date":"2009-12-24T00:12:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T00:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1542"},"modified":"2013-11-12T20:38:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T20:38:17","slug":"flocking-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/flocking-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Flocking together&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Grey skies today. In the distance, just to the north west of the garden, a lone sparrowhawk hovered, watching. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sparrowhawk_2312095463.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Sparrowhawk<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The garden birds spooked, and took to the wing.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/starling_2312095438.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Starlings swirling<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/pigeons_2312095466.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Pigeons heading south<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/pigeons_2312095470.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">And turning eastward<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tonight, all is calm again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/garden_night_2312095478.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/garden_night_2312095478.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"garden at night\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">click to enlarge<\/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 the bird shots were taken with the Canon 40D and EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens. The night shot was taken with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM at f\/5.6, ISO 1000 with a 20 second exposure.<\/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":[1],"tags":[33,60,394],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birds","tag-garden","tag-night","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","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=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}