{"id":1606,"date":"2010-04-13T00:04:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T23:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1606"},"modified":"2013-11-10T23:52:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T23:52:08","slug":"country-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/country-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Country life"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Beautiful sunshine, but a bitterly cold wind was the order of the day. I headed out to the local fields before work. I'm always hopeful of seeing a fox, but so far fortune hasn't been with me. The pheasants are there though.
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And there are sheep in the fields…
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And ponies…
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I headed back there at lunchtime… a pair of partridges were taking a stroll, but too far off for a decent photo. The pheasants were at the far side of the field until they decided to take to the wing.
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This evening, the goldfinches were back in the garden.
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The tadpoles were tadpolling around in the pond.
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And the bold vixen paused for a photograph with a friendly hedgehog.
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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 40D. The daylight shots were all with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The tadpoles were photographed with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro lens, and the vixen with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM.<\/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":[980,4,282,167,1041,278],"tags":[33,1128,211,1168,207,208,135,200],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-hedgehog","category-horse","category-sheep-wildlife","category-tadpole","tag-birds","tag-fox","tag-goldfinch","tag-hedgehog","tag-pheasant","tag-pony","tag-sheep","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