{"id":1881,"date":"2011-03-21T23:03:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T23:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1881"},"modified":"2013-11-09T17:33:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T17:33:40","slug":"ladybirds-blackbirds-and-larks-thats-four-species-count-the-comma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/ladybirds-blackbirds-and-larks-thats-four-species-count-the-comma\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladybirds, Blackbirds and Skylarks (that&#8217;s four species&#8230; count the comma)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Spring is in the air, and some familiar faces are returning after the long winter. I&#39;ve fallen slightly behind with keeping things here up to date, but I&#39;ve seen my first butterflies of the year. Not many yet, but this comma settled briefly on our roof.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/comma_butterfly_2103119418.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The garden highlight though is undoubtedly the ladybird. I counted over 100 without really trying. They are scattered all over a shrubby honeysuckle hedge which runs down one side of the garden.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ladybird_2103119497.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And of course, this being spring, they are mating.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ladybird_mating_2103119451.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>This is just a short clip&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"reactr-oembed-wrap clr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ladybirds Mating\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RrhQdyjjZ48?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Out in the fields, the smaller birds continue to fill the air with song. Among the more distinctive calls are the skylarks, who trill constantly while on the wing.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/skylark_2103119620.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And there are blackbirds. This is a female.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/blackbird_2103119565.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/blackbird_2103119569_crop.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The badger, foxes and hedgehogs are continuing their nightly rounds of the garden, and the newts continue their foraging among the frogspawn. It&#39;s busy out there. Very busy!<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: bird and butterfly shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Same camera but with the EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM lens for the ladybird photos and video. <\/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":[980,992,71],"tags":[51,1144,401,316],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-butterfly-insects-2","category-ladybird","tag-blackbird","tag-butterfly","tag-ladybirds","tag-skylark","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","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=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}