{"id":1793,"date":"2010-12-07T23:12:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T23:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1793"},"modified":"2013-11-10T01:25:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T01:25:37","slug":"walking-on-thin-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/walking-on-thin-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking on thin ice&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The &quot;big freeze&quot; (yes, I know everyone in Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, the USA will fall about laughing at that!) continues, but it really has caught us out over here. My train this morning had no heating, but at least it ran on time. Now if they could combine timeliness with warmth we might actually be getting somewhere, but such things seem beyond us. Anyway, it&#39;s cold!<\/p>\n<p>Cold enough for geese to take the easy route across the lake.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/geese_ice_0712102938.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Cold enough even for a squirrel to take a short cut from one bank to the other.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/squirrel_ice_0712102891.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The ducks weren&#39;t silly though. They took to the air.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ducks_0712102958.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And the herons stalked along the water&#39;s edge.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/heron_0712102924.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/heron_0712102927.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Down in the undergrowth, a rat just did what rats do&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/rat_0712102813.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/rat_0712102838.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Though this one seems to be contemplating the tree with a hint of envy for its bushy-tailed friends.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/rat_0712102820.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Not that the bushy-tailed friends are bothered&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/squirrel_0712102827.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I did see a fox in the garden tonight, but only through the window. I can hear them outside, short chattering calls. But it&#39;s too cold to linger. I&#39;ll check the trail cam tomorrow to see who I&#39;ve missed.<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 EF 200mm f\/2.8L II USM.<\/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":[1003,781,16,50,989,1042],"tags":[150,498,1179,1191,1183,1141],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape-2","category-rats","category-snow","category-squirrel","category-water-birds-birds-2","category-weather-2","tag-ducks","tag-geese","tag-heron","tag-ice","tag-rat","tag-squirrel","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","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=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}