{"id":1660,"date":"2010-06-26T00:06:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T23:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1660"},"modified":"2013-11-10T19:23:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T19:23:02","slug":"catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/catching-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#39;ve been struggling to keep up with myself for the past week, so today is another selection box from the past couple of days. I&#39;ll start with this shot taken on Thursday of a pair of female broad-bodied chasers over the pond. A damselfly flew into the shot, adding a dash of extra colour. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/broad_bodied_chasers_dragonfly_2406107062.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I can&#39;t do the sound effects, but a male crow was calling raucously while I was watching the dragonflies. He eventually came into view and offered a quick photo opportunity.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/crow_2406107023.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>This morning saw one of my favourite small birds take centre stage. It&#39;s a linnet, and it was happily singing away in the sunshine.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/linnet_2506107278.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/linnet_2506107271.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>A pair of jackdaws were taking an early morning refreshment at one of the ornamental ponds.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/jacdaw_2506107314.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>At lunchtime I wandered back out to the buzzard field. Once again a pair were in the vicinity, but the best shots were of one of them being mobbed by a pair of crows.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/buzzard_crow_2506107438.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Back on <i>terra firma<\/i> a lone fox cut across the field. I&#39;ve seen very few foxes out in the fields this year, so it was a welcome surprise to see one out in the middle of the day.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/fox_wild_2506107390.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And of course there are foxes in the garden. Or to be precise there&#39;s the Cheeky Young Vixen in the garden&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/fox_cub_cheeky_2506107185.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/fox_cub_cheeky_2506107187.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: The dragonflies and crow were taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The linnet, fox in the field, jackdaw and buzzard were taken with the EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens. Both fox photos were taken with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM 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":[990,980,77,4],"tags":[33,1142,1148,1128],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","category-dragonfly","category-foxes","tag-birds","tag-cub","tag-dragonfly","tag-fox","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","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=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}