{"id":1868,"date":"2011-03-08T23:03:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T23:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1868"},"modified":"2013-11-09T18:06:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T18:06:14","slug":"a-variety-of-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-variety-of-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"A Variety of Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Nothing too spectacular today, just a few of the more common birds that frequent the fields and woodlands around here. The first is by far the largest of them, a pheasant out grazing in a field early this morning.
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A blackbird was flitting among the trees and paused briefly on the ruins of a farm building.
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Next is a dunnock, which somehow has adopted an expression that I can only describe as 'squashed'.
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I'm not even sure if you'll be able to see this next one. This is at 400mm zoom, but uncropped.
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This one might make things a little easier.
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And if you are still struggling, here's a closer shot of a long-tailed tit. Such pretty little things; not shy, but obsessively committed to making themselves as difficult to photograph as possible.
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There are several foxes passing through the garden, but only Shutterbug will tolerate the camera. Here he is in a woodland corner of the garden.
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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens, apart from the fox which was photographed with the EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO IS 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":[980,4,1004],"tags":[51,1128,1182,207],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-south-downs-national-park-landscape-2","tag-blackbird","tag-fox","tag-long-tailed-tit","tag-pheasant","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