{"id":1609,"date":"2010-04-17T23:04:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T22:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1609"},"modified":"2013-11-10T23:46:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T23:46:31","slug":"well-i-cant-manage-a-sea-eagle-but-how-about-a-white-buzzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/well-i-cant-manage-a-sea-eagle-but-how-about-a-white-buzzard\/","title":{"rendered":"Well I can&#8217;t manage a sea eagle, but how about a white buzzard&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The title of this entry is a response to the comments on my previous blog. A sea eagle around Brighton is not going to happen imminently, but I did spot an unusual raptor this afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>I&#39;d just gone out into the garden and I spotted two buzzards overhead. They were sparring on the wing at some distance and at a great height. I checked carefully to make sure they weren&#39;t red kites (they weren&#39;t), but one of the pair was interesting in its own way.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/buzzards_1704103481.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/buzzards_1704103485.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/buzzards_1704103486.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Leucism is a condition that results in a loss of pigmentation. It&#39;s seen in many species, usually (as here) causing partial loss of colouration. Buzzards do, like many birds, vary in colour (though not normally to this extent) and fully white buzzards are very occasionally seen. They tend to cause quite a stir. <\/p>\n<p>Less unusual, yesterday (Friday) I paid a brief visit to a local duck pond&#8230; <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/duck_1604103407.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/duck_1604103411.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/duck_1604103417.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There were several geese grazing&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/geese_1604103384.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And a moorhen flying by&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/moorhen_flight_1604103400.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":[990,989],"tags":[1160,1172,620],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-duck","tag-moorhen","tag-white-buzzard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","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=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}