{"id":1691,"date":"2010-08-11T00:08:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T23:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1691"},"modified":"2013-11-10T16:28:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T16:28:51","slug":"kestrels-of-sheepcote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/kestrels-of-sheepcote\/","title":{"rendered":"Kestrels of Sheepcote"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Despite the gloom (we were, and still are, shrouded in mist for most of the day) I stopped off at Sheepcote Valley. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sheepcote_1008108605.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Sheepcote Valley<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sheepcote_1008108743.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There weren&#39;t many kestrels about, but one is enough. This male was out hunting crickets (a main secondary diet at this time of the year).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/kestrel_1008108670.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Kestrel with cricket<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I tracked him to his landing site&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/kestrel_1008108707.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/kestrel_1008108723.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/>Snack over, he took to the air again to hunt for more morsels&#8230;.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/kestrel_1008108736.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 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":[990,1003,1004],"tags":[1152,1190],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-landscape-2","category-south-downs-national-park-landscape-2","tag-kestrel","tag-sheepcote-valley","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","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=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}