<\/span> <\/p>\nAlso in the garden, looking resplendent in its green frock-coat, a magpie… Further afield, literally and a field away from where I took this, a buzzard perches low in the trees… A crow comes into land among the crops… And overhead, a skylark sings as the day comes to a close… The butterflies are also beginning to emerge. I saw a brimstone in the garden today, but failed miserably to photograph it. I did manage a peacock though. A small tortoiseshell also paused for a few moments… In the pond, the spawn is transforming into tadpoles. This was taken a few hours ago… And the vixen is busy feeding her young. She passed through the garden late last night carrying a pigeon. It's rather easier to photograph her when she has some chicken to pick over \ud83d\ude09
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Camera note: All shots taken with the Canon 40D. The birds were all photographed with the EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens. I used the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS for the butterflies (it has a shorter focusing distance, so I can get in a little closer). The tadpoles were taken with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro plus extension tubes (and the Sigma ring flash). The vixen was photographed 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":[980,992,4,278,1],"tags":[33,233,1128,200],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-butterfly-insects-2","category-foxes","category-tadpole","category-uncategorized","tag-birds","tag-butterflies","tag-fox","tag-tadpoles","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