{"id":1783,"date":"2010-11-23T23:11:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T23:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1783"},"modified":"2013-11-10T10:32:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T10:32:58","slug":"sleeping-swans-and-other-park-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/sleeping-swans-and-other-park-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping Swans and other park life…"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

We seem to have entered a cold spell. The air is sharp, though for a few moments today the sun tried to break through. It didn't last. <\/p>\n

The whooper swans appear to be a winter fixture in the park. Yesterday they were quite lively.
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Today, they were quite sleepy :zzz:
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The squirrels, on the other hand, were as lively as can be, busy putting on weight for winter. This first one caught me by surprise. I heard a noise coming from the bottom of a rubbish bin, peered in, and this little thing jumped out.
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And this one was defending its nuts against all comers!
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While yet another of the clan decided that a seat at the high table was the order of the day.
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And that would have been that… except as I was leaving the park I was startled by a mass of pigeons taking to the wing. Usually the cause is obvious… someone scattering seed for them; but not this time. This time I looked up, and high above the London skyline two peregrines were circling. I'm using a 200mm lens for my London shots (It's reasonably portable and about an ideal length for most of the park inhabitants), so this is a massively aggressive crop. Better than nothing though.
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To close though, I'll use the most familiar of all the familiar faces: Bold, curled up in a corner of the garden.
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Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 200mm f\/2.8L II USM, except the fox which was photographed with the 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":[990,4,50,989],"tags":[1128,302,1141,339],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-foxes","category-squirrel","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-fox","tag-peregrine","tag-squirrel","tag-swan","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","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=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}