{"id":1820,"date":"2011-01-14T23:01:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T23:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1820"},"modified":"2013-11-09T21:23:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T21:23:55","slug":"a-covert-of-coots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-covert-of-coots\/","title":{"rendered":"A Covert of Coots"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->There are all sorts of fascinating collective nouns for birds. A &#39;murmuration of starlings&#39; is one, an &#39;exultation of larks&#39; is another. But today it&#39;s all about the coot. In fact it&#39;s about a &#39;covert of coots&#39; to use the established phrase. &#39;Cacophony&#39; or &#39;chapel&#39; would do just as well to my way of thinking (the former for the sound, the later for their monkish dress), but &#39;covert&#39; it is. Covert, but not undercover. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/coots_1401117667.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Covert of Coots<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Grouped together like that, they seem so placid. But the slightest thing can set them off&#8230; especially when the &#39;slightest thing&#39; is a passer-by with a bag of bread! Then woe betide anything that gets in their way!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/coots_1401117658.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/coots_1401117659.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/coots_1401117660.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/coots_1401117662.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/coots_1401117675.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/coots_1401117700.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The lone swan apart, the larger water fowl were congregating on firmer ground.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/heron_1401117716.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And they were occasionally picking fights&#8230; two Canada geese:<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/canada_geese_1401117732.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Finally, a very brief clip of a badger from the garden last night. <\/p>\n<div class=\"reactr-oembed-wrap clr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badger\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lxRgNSDy9wo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><i>Camera+note%3A+all+shots+taken+with+the+Canon+40D++and+EF+200mm+f%2F2.8L+II+USM.%3C%2Fi%3E&#8221; width=&#8221;626&#8243; <\/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":[989],"tags":[160,415,498,1179,339],"class_list":["post-1820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-badger-2","tag-coots","tag-geese","tag-heron","tag-swan","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820","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=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}