{"id":1791,"date":"2010-12-05T23:12:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T23:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1791"},"modified":"2013-11-10T10:21:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T10:21:43","slug":"return-to-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/return-to-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The snow has gone, cleared by the brief thaw. Temperatures are falling again but today (at least) there was a little sunshine and a chance to head out to the Downs. The thin winter sun was perfect, casting almost unreal colour across the landscape.
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There were relatively few of the smaller birds around, though I did glimpse a robin.
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Usually the large field flocks are pigeons, but today the corvids were dominant, with crows, rooks and jackdaws all greedily seeking what they could find in the churned fields.
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But this being winter on the Downs, flocks of sheep are the main source of animal life, and by the look of some of them they are already carrying early lambs.
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There was one genuine surprise. I'd headed to an area where the buzzards are often active. They weren't around, but a distinctive shape in a distant filed caught my eye. Unless I am very much mistaken, this is a hare. Which makes a first for me. Apologies for the dreadful quality of the photos. The light was fading and I was a long way off with no means of getting closer.
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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":[674,1003,1041,1004],"tags":[673,1192,78,135,94],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hare","category-landscape-2","category-sheep-wildlife","category-south-downs-national-park-landscape-2","tag-corvids","tag-hare","tag-robin","tag-sheep","tag-south-downs","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