{"id":1883,"date":"2011-03-23T23:03:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T23:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1883"},"modified":"2013-11-09T17:18:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T17:18:31","slug":"sussex-black-panther-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/sussex-black-panther-sighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Sussex Black Panther Sighting!"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->There have long been rumours of wild cats in this area. Today, out in local fields while watching for buzzards, I was stunned when one flashed across the path. It was feline. It was black. It was hunting. Could it be the mysterious Sussex panther? Judge for yourself. :cat:<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/panther_2303119999_59.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the local raptors continue to entertain. Today, the buzzards were joined by a sparrowhawk.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/sparrowhawk_buzzard_2303119999_93.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The pair circled each other several times, but keeping a safe distance between them. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/sparrowhawk_2303119999_80.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Sparrowhawk<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/buzzard_2303119999_41.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Buzzard<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The next few shots are heavily cropped. They show a buzzard diving. While not reaching the speed of some of the smaller raptors, it was steep and swift. And a long way away! <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/buzzard_dive_2303119999_116.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/buzzard_dive_2303119999_121.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>This third shot is also cropped&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/buzzard_dive_2303119999_131.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>On the home front the tadpoles are beginning to emerge. This batch is several inches below the surface, but seems to be doing well. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tadpoles_2303110022.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The gills will be reabsorbed over the next few weeks.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tadpoles_2303110007.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, except for the tadpoles which were taken with the EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM 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":[990,36,278],"tags":[179,705,1154,200],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-cat","category-tadpole","tag-buzzard","tag-panther","tag-sparrowhawk","tag-tadpoles","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","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=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}