{"id":1664,"date":"2010-07-01T00:06:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T23:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1664"},"modified":"2013-11-10T18:43:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T18:43:34","slug":"over-and-around-the-ponds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/over-and-around-the-ponds\/","title":{"rendered":"Over and around the ponds"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Water is a wildlife magnet. These were taken at two local ponds today. <\/p>\n<p>Swifts and house martins were circling above&#8230; and swooping to catch insects above the water&#39;s surface. It takes me a while to organize myself to capture shots of them over the water, so these are &#39;in flight&#39; shots.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/swift_3006109121.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">A swift in flight<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/swift_martin_3006109113.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Swift and house martin<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At a second local pond, the young crows were waiting to be fed.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/crow_juvenile_3006109152.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/crow_juvenile_3006109153.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/crow_juvenile_3006109161.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The true stars of the ponds at this time of year are the dragonflies, and today was exceptional. The broad bodied chasers were zig-zagging across the pond in small flocks!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/broad_bodied_chaser_x5_3006109246.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As fascinating as the chasers were to watch, the emperors were in a class of their own.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/emperor_dragonfly_3006109303.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/emperor_dragonfly_3006109326.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/emperor_dragonfly_3006109349.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/emperor_dragonfly_3006109289.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/emperor_dragonfly_3006109350.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 EF 400mm f\/5.6L 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":[980,77],"tags":[33,299],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-dragonfly","tag-birds","tag-dragonflies","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","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=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}