{"id":1828,"date":"2011-01-24T23:01:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T23:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1828"},"modified":"2013-11-09T21:10:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T21:10:59","slug":"first-sighting-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/first-sighting-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"First Sighting Alert!"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->An overcast day, far from ideal conditions but it did produce a personal &#39;first sighting&#39;. Well actually it was a first &#39;hearing&#39; then sighting. I was by the lake in Regent&#39;s Park (where else?) and above all the hooting of geese, squawking of coots and gulls, and yabbering of ducks I heard an ear-splitting squawk! Yes a squawk&#8230; as in parrot. I looked, and sure enough there was my first ever sighting of the now naturalized ring-necked parakeet! <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ring_necked_parakeet_2401119416.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>It was across the water on the island, and a long lens is what you want at such moments (and what I had). That&#39;s a crow on the right.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ring_necked_parakeet_2401119417.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ring_necked_parakeet_2401119428.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There were two of them, so hardly a flock but it will do for me!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ring_necked_parakeet_2401119432.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Not a first as such, but I also caught a small flight of tufted ducks&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tufted_ducks_flight_2401119451.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Some herons&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/heron_2401119478.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/heron_2401119490.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And for a touch of avian inelegance, an Egyptian goose coming into land on the lake.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/egyptian_goose_2401119469.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Finally, here&#39;s a couple of shots from a longer sequence of a coot in its take-off routine&#8230; fast running on the surface of the water and eventually taking to the air&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/coot_2401119523.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/coot_2401119520.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><\/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":[980,989],"tags":[1175,683,1179,684,685],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-coot","tag-egyptian-goose","tag-heron","tag-ring-necked-parakeet","tag-tufted-duck","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828","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=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}