{"id":1602,"date":"2010-04-07T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1602"},"modified":"2013-11-11T00:14:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T00:14:35","slug":"its-cold-but-its-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/its-cold-but-its-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Cold, but it&#8217;s Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This time last year we were bathed in warm sunshine. This Easter, although the threatened rain held off, there&#39;s a sharp bite to the air.  The birds don&#39;t seem to mind though.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ll start with a goldfinch, seen in the garden (something of a rarity). <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/goldfinch_0504101554.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Also in the garden, looking resplendent in its green frock-coat, a magpie&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/magpie_0504101531.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Further afield, literally and a field away from where I took this, a buzzard perches low in the trees&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/buzzard_0504101494.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>A crow comes into land among the crops&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/crow_0504101460.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And overhead, a skylark sings as the day comes to a close&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/skylark_0504101406.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/peacock_butterfly_0604101646.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>A small tortoiseshell also paused for a few moments&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/small_tortoiseshell_butterfly_0604101634.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>In the pond, the spawn is transforming into tadpoles. This was taken a few hours ago&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tadpoles_0604101665.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And the vixen is busy feeding her young. She passed through the garden late last night carrying a pigeon. It&#39;s rather easier to photograph her when she has some chicken to pick over \ud83d\ude09<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/fox_bold_vixen_0604101613.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. 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","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=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}