{"id":1761,"date":"2010-10-28T23:10:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T22:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1761"},"modified":"2013-11-10T11:36:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T11:36:58","slug":"london-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/london-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"London Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#39;ll begin tonight&#39;s blog with a photo of one of the less well regarded species that inhabits London&#39;s parks&#8230; I&#39;ve seen these on an almost daily basis scuttling into the undergrowth. The regular park users seem to ignore them, even when they see them. Yes, it&#39;s a rat.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/rat_2810106722.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There are prettier animals around, and to balance the previous shot here&#39;s another small (but much prettier) animal, a long-tailed tit. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ltt_2810106710.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I also saw a pair of great crested grebes (the first time I&#39;ve seen them in Regent&#39;s Park during my recent visits).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/great_crested_grebe_2810106695.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And herons&#8230; always herons. They are wonderful birds and it is an absolute pleasure to sit and watch them. This is a sequence of one moving a short distance from one tree to the next.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aligncenter\"><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/L6tAMrpF5gM?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;amp;color2=0x999999\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"never\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/L6tAMrpF5gM?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;amp;color2=0x999999\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" allowscriptaccess=\"never\" \/><\/object><\/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 EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS 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":[980,781],"tags":[519,1179,1182,1183],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-rats","tag-grebe","tag-heron","tag-long-tailed-tit","tag-rat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","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=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}