{"id":1565,"date":"2010-01-24T01:01:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T01:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1565"},"modified":"2013-11-11T22:48:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T22:48:33","slug":"counting-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/counting-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting Sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I was back at Sheepcote Valley today. It was cold, and the light was poor. Not a good day for photographing birds, but the sheep are still there and in poor light it&#39;s much better to have a larger subject and one you can get near. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sheep_2301100727.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Double tagged<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The magpies were still hovering in and out among the sheep, but I wasn&#39;t granted as good a spectacle as <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2010\/01\/17\/magpies-photo-sequence\" target=\"_blank\">last week<\/a>. So I stayed with the sheep.<\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sheep_2301100719.jpg' \/><\/span> [\/URL]<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sheep_2301100769.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sheep_2301100769.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"264\" alt=\"sheep\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Click to zoom<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I headed back towards the car, a small flock of linnets caught my eye. They were circling around a tree, and every so often would settle in its branches.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/linnet_2301100785.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/linnet_2301100795.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And finally, a kestrel flew by&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/kestrel_2301100815.jpg' \/><\/span> <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":[980,1041],"tags":[33,135],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-sheep-wildlife","tag-birds","tag-sheep","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","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=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}