{"id":1724,"date":"2010-09-18T00:09:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T23:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1724"},"modified":"2013-11-10T13:09:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T13:09:33","slug":"on-the-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/on-the-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

As autumn approaches, and the leaves begin to fall from the trees, the smaller birds come to the fore. Flocks of goldfinches<\/a> are a common sight over the fields, but today it was the wheatears that caught my attention. They were busy feeding on the grass downland. And they were confident (or hungry) enough to tolerate a relatively close approach.
<\/span> This one has just caught a small spider.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span> Wheatears on the lookout<\/span><\/p>\n

There were innumerable magpies about, with several juveniles chattering away.
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Back home the pigeons abound, and occasionally show their cute side.
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But for all the small birds, the rarest sighting of the day was a moth. To be precise a Tiger Moth, hailing back to 1942. It flew sedately over the garden late this afternoon.
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\"Nature<\/a><\/span>
Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM 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":[980],"tags":[33,661],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-tiger-moth","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