{"id":1864,"date":"2011-03-05T00:03:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T00:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1864"},"modified":"2013-11-09T18:11:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T18:11:43","slug":"ducks-in-the-morning-buzzards-for-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/ducks-in-the-morning-buzzards-for-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks in the Morning, Buzzards for Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Another bright, sharp winter&#39;s day. It was bitterly cold early on so I headed over to the village pond. Nothing unusual to report, but the ducks were active and some small birds were foraging at the water&#39;s edge. In this shot the drake on the left is pecking (and pushing) at the one on the right. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ducks_0403116027.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The light offered some nice reflections.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/duck_0403116096.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And the pied wagtails hopped among the rocks.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pwt_0403116103.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>At lunchtime I headed back out to the local fields.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/downs_0403116163.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>For the best part of an hour I saw little, but as I was leaving to get back to work a pair of buzzards flew into view. There was just time for a few shots.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/buzzard_0403116232.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/buzzards_0403116246.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/buzzard_0403116250.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/buzzards_0403116239.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/buzzard_0403116262.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Out in the garden, we&#39;ve had further visits from the badger overnight and a brief glimpse (also on the trail cam) of a vixen who appears to be lactating. So there are cubs in the vicinity, though I don&#39;t expect any tangible sign of them for several weeks (at least). This evening I caught a brief glimpse of a fox through the window, sitting sedately at the rear of the garden next to a cat. No photo of them (what I actually saw were four bright eyes reflecting the torchlight back through the darkness), but I did get a picture of our hedgehog. \ud83d\ude42<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/hedgehog_0503116280.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><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens, except the hedgehog which was photographed with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM 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":[990,980,282,989],"tags":[179,150,1168,120],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","category-hedgehog","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-buzzard","tag-ducks","tag-hedgehog","tag-pied-wagtail","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","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=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}