{"id":1875,"date":"2011-03-15T23:03:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T23:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1875"},"modified":"2013-11-09T17:40:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T17:40:06","slug":"great-tit-parus-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/great-tit-parus-major\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Tit (Parus major)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

This is one of those birds I hear all the time, but rarely manage to get decent photos. Today though, out in some local woodland, I was in luck. There were plenty of misses (of course) as it ducked behind branches, but there were enough clear views to make it worthwhile persisting. The Great Tit has a very distinctive call, which is described variously as Teacher Teacher<\/i>, but to me sounds like nothing other than a squeaking wheel. It's also been described as the song of the melting snow.
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Those shots were taken early this morning. At lunchtime I went to some local fields which were being besieged by flocks of pigeons.
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There was one lone bird in the air as well. In the distance a peregrine falcon crossed the skyline. It was barely visible, even through the lens, but it's always a thrill to see them working the skies.
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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.<\/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],"tags":[57,300,103],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-great-tit","tag-peregrine-falcon","tag-pigeons","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