{"id":1869,"date":"2011-03-09T23:03:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T23:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1869"},"modified":"2013-11-09T17:49:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T17:49:33","slug":"daytime-squirrel-night-time-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/daytime-squirrel-night-time-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Daytime Squirrel, Night-time Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A drizzly start to the day precluded any excursions to the fields before work, but at lunchtime I did manage to stretch my legs though there was surprisingly little to see. In fact, apart from an occasional gull and a few rooks and jackdaws the only wildlife I saw was a local squirrel. The behaviour was quite unlike the London squirrels of a month or so ago. This one was cautious and headed for the safety of the trees as quickly as it could.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/squirrel_0903117294.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/squirrel_0903117309.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Back home, I&#39;m beginning to wonder whether we will see any frog spawn this year. It&#39;s late and there are only a few frogs in the pond (five at the last count). A couple of them had their heads above the surface tonight. In this photo you can clearly see the membrane that protects their eyes when submerged.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/frog_eye_membrane_0903117341.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>They were also spotted by a fox (Shutterbug). The frog is the light coloured blob in the right foreground.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fox_young_male_frog_0903117354.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Not for long though. This frog at least had a healthy sense of self-preservation and quickly ducked down below the surface.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fox_young_male_frog_0903117356.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>With teeth like these just a few inches away, I&#39;m not surprised.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fox_young_male_0903117320.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: squirrel photographed with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. I used the EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO IS lens for the frog and fox shots.<\/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":[4,86,50],"tags":[1128,1149,1141],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-frog","category-squirrel","tag-fox","tag-frog","tag-squirrel","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","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=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}