{"id":1553,"date":"2010-01-07T23:01:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T23:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1553"},"modified":"2013-11-12T00:31:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T00:31:17","slug":"more-of-the-snowy-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/more-of-the-snowy-south\/","title":{"rendered":"More of the snowy south…"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Well we haven't had more than a few minor flurries of snow today. On the other hand, the temperature dropped rapidly last night (to around -8 C), so what snow there is looks like staying on the ground for a while yet. The roads outside are solid ice, public transport isn't reaching us, and the smaller roads are not being gritted. Some reports are suggesting it could stay like this for a couple of weeks more, which is a little alarming. We may not have the depth of snow or low temperatures of some parts of the world, but we are totally unprepared and have no infrastructure to deal with these conditions when they do hit us. Anyway, enough of the rambling, now to some photos.
<\/span> The view from our garden, early this morning<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> Also taken from the garden, but looking out over the Downs<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> One of the local 'main roads'<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> A sparrow preening itself<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> And a cheeky chaffinch<\/span><\/p>\n

As for the foxes, I'm still chasing a 'snow photo' but I did find out that the bold vixen hasn't been treated by our local wildlife centre, so her disappearance in November is still a mystery. I did catch her – and a male fox a few hours later – on the trail cam. It was close enough to daylight for the second part of the video to be in colour!<\/p>\n

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Camera note: all the photos were taken with the Canon 40D. For the first two, and the sparrow, I used the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The 'main road' was taken with the EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO IS lens, as was the chaffinch.<\/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":[980,4,1003,16],"tags":[33,1128,1136],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-landscape-2","category-snow","tag-birds","tag-fox","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