{"id":1673,"date":"2010-07-14T00:07:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T23:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1673"},"modified":"2013-11-10T18:32:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T18:32:28","slug":"early-light-late-night-and-a-tiny-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/early-light-late-night-and-a-tiny-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Early light, late night (and a tiny surprise)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The local herring gull chicks have finally fledged and a young pair were resting on the grass early this morning. The light was terrible, and these two shots were taken at ISO 1000 which still only gave a shutter speed of 1\/125s. It&#39;s at times like this that I really appreciate the benefits of image stabilization.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gull_fledgling_1307102253.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Yawning herring gull fledgling<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gull_fledgling_1307102262.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Stretching a wing<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The light was no better over by a nearby ornamental garden. I&#39;d gone in search of dragonflies, but what I saw was a real surprise and a photographic challenge. The first two shots were taken in the morning.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/vole_1307102276.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>If you look closely you can just see it peeping out between the plants. It was scurrying around, avoiding any clear shot. It&#39;s a vole (probably a field vole). I usually see them in the tight grasp of a kestrel. I&#39;ve very occasionally seen one scurry under a hedgerow, but I&#39;ve never photographed one. They are in fact one of the most numerous species we have, but their size, habitat and general caution makes them a difficult &#39;spot&#39;.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/vole_1307102296.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I went back at lunchtime to see if I could get any more photos. The light was poor and I cranked up to ISO 1600 (something I almost never do except at night). One of the voles (there are at least two) was busy in the undergrowth. I could locate them by listening out for sounds of eating! Eventually one briefly scurried along the edge of the garden area to grab an exposed shoot. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/vole_1307102315.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\"><s>Field<\/s> Bank vole<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/vole_1307102317.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Note the short tail<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The late night reference in the title of this entry brings me to the foxes. Cheeky, the young vixen, was out in the garden (I&#39;m gathering some nice portraits of her) when she was disturbed by some fox calling nearby. A few moments later, Bold (her mother) appeared. I&#39;ll let the photos take it from here (taken at ISO 100).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/fox_bold_cub_%20cheeky_vixen1307102458.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Greeting<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/fox_bold_cub_%20cheeky_vixen1307102468.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/fox_bold_cub_%20cheeky_vixen1307102489.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: gulls and vole shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The foxes were 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":[4,989,3],"tags":[1142,1128,68,337],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-water-birds-birds-2","category-wildlife","tag-cub","tag-fox","tag-gull","tag-vole","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","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=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}