{"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<p><!--more-->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 <i>Teacher Teacher<\/i>, but to me sounds like nothing other than a squeaking wheel. It&#39;s also been described as the song of the melting snow.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/great_tit_1503118278.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/great_tit_1503118282.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/great_tit_1503118296.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Those shots were taken early this morning. At lunchtime I went to some local fields which were being besieged by flocks of pigeons.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pigeon_flock_1503118366.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pigeon_flock_1503118377.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pigeon_flock_15031183771.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to enlarge<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>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&#39;s always a thrill to see them working the skies.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/peregrine_1503118355.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.<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","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=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}