{"id":1872,"date":"2011-03-12T23:03:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T23:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1872"},"modified":"2013-11-09T17:45:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T17:45:23","slug":"a-pheasant-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-pheasant-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pheasant Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->These are some photos from Friday that got sidelined in favour of yesterday&#39;s newts and frogspawn sequence. I was out early morning in one of my regular haunts where the chances of seeing something interesting are generally good. There are small birds such as this wren&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wren_1103117557.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And there are striking birds such as this vibrant yellowhammer&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/yellowhammer_1103117575.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There are also corvids. Yesterday it was the crows that were dominant.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/crow_1103117623.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/crows_1103117677.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The highlight though was a pair of pheasants out enjoying the morning sunshine. They strolled around the filed like a couple of old friends, wandering between the sleepy horses and eventually ambling (do pheasants amble? Well these ones do) over the brow of hill and out of sight.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pheasant_horse_1103117640.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pheasant_horse_1103117637.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pheasant_horse_1103117663.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Just one more item tonight, a short video caught a couple of nights ago. It shows some common behavioural traits, first by a fox and then a badger. It&#39;s an edit, but the two clips were taken only a few minutes apart. <\/p>\n<div class=\"reactr-oembed-wrap clr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fox ~~ Badger\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5wbz6blPr4A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM 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":[994,980,4],"tags":[160,44,1128,207,285,471],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badger-wildlife","category-birds-2","category-foxes","tag-badger-2","tag-crow","tag-fox","tag-pheasant","tag-wren","tag-yellowhammer","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","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=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}