{"id":1695,"date":"2010-08-17T00:08:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T23:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1695"},"modified":"2013-11-10T16:23:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T16:23:44","slug":"whitethroat-and-a-few-other-bits-and-bobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/whitethroat-and-a-few-other-bits-and-bobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitethroat (and a few other bits and bobs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Whitethroats are among the cutest of the LBJs I encounter (LBJ = 'little brown job' is the 'technical' term for any small mud-coloured bird that defies identification in the field). I saw this one this morning. It was flitting about in the dense brambles, but emerged long enough for a couple of quick shots.
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The bits and bobs from today included a kestrel. In fact I saw several, but mainly at a distance. This one has just caught a vole.
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I'm not even going to begin to identify this next one, other than to say that it's a moth. It was settled at the rear of the garden and seemed unusually placid.
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And a fox… Cheeky relaxing…
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Camera note: all the bird shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The moth and the fox were photographed with the EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM.<\/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":[980,4,251],"tags":[33,1128,1152,1162,568],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-moth","tag-birds","tag-fox","tag-kestrel","tag-moth","tag-whitethroat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t