{"id":1848,"date":"2011-02-14T23:02:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T23:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1848"},"modified":"2013-11-09T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T19:16:08","slug":"coots-mating-ducks-in-trees-and-other-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/coots-mating-ducks-in-trees-and-other-sightings\/","title":{"rendered":"Coots mating, ducks in trees and other sightings…"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

This is by way of filling in some gaps from the recent posts with some photos that didn't quite fit in with other entries. The first set is one of the last sequences taken in Regent's Park (my daily commute to London has come to an end). Captured last Friday, it's a pair of coots mating. And in case you're having trouble seeing her, the hen is almost entirely submerged.
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The hen, when she finally surfaced, made a bit a splash!
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Friday also produced another 'odd shot'… a duck in a tree. This was a first for me and I had to look twice to see if it really was a duck.
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I thought it might have been a goose \ud83d\ude09
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The next tonight was taken on Saturday while I was photographing the kestrels. It's a skylark.
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To end I've picked a couple of photos taken today. The first is a sparrowhawk passing overhead (at a fair distance).
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Lastly, a photo of the moon. This was actually taken during the day but has been converted to black and white, and the background darkened.
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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D. The first 7 were with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The final two were taken with the EF 400mm f\/5.6L 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":[990,980,1031,989],"tags":[1175,1160,191,38,316,1154],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","category-moon-landscape-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-coot","tag-duck","tag-goose","tag-moon","tag-skylark","tag-sparrowhawk","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