{"id":1776,"date":"2010-11-15T23:11:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T23:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1776"},"modified":"2013-11-10T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T10:41:08","slug":"sun-dog-and-other-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/sun-dog-and-other-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Dog and other wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Not only did the trains run on time today, but glancing out of the window as the early mists began to clear I saw a sun dog high in the distance.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sun_dog_1511108820.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>If you&#39;re not familiar with this phenomenon (it&#39;s roughly in the centre of the shot), it&#39;s caused by ice crystals and presents a &#39;mini&#39; rainbow effect. It usually only last a few minutes, but is quite common. <\/p>\n<p>later in the day, the sun was shining, and I headed back to the park. Plenty of bird life, including the massed London pigeons.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pigeons_1511108877.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Even the squirrels can&#39;t compete with them when it comes to food!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pigeons_1511109068.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The whooper swans were about&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/whooper_swan_1511109018.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As were the pochards&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pochard_1511109000.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Along the edge of the water there were coots (I have a strange affinity with these birds \ud83d\ude09 )<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/coots_1511108962.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And of course, the squirrels. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/squirrel_1511109120.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 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":[50,989,1042],"tags":[415,103,1141,194,671],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-squirrel","category-water-birds-birds-2","category-weather-2","tag-coots","tag-pigeons","tag-squirrel","tag-sun-dog","tag-whooper-swanpochard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","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=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}