{"id":1884,"date":"2011-03-24T23:03:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T23:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1884"},"modified":"2013-11-09T17:16:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T17:16:29","slug":"small-is-beautiful-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/small-is-beautiful-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Small is Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The current good weather is holding, at least for a few days more. This is where I had lunch.
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It's a good time of year for bird watching. They're busy feeding themselves are the privations of winter, and there's plenty for them to choose from. It's not, however, such a good time of year for the humble worm.
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Those were a blackbird photographed at the edge of a churchyard early this morning. Blackbirds tend to keep to the undergrowth. Pied wagtails like to feed out in the open.
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I think this next shot is a mistle thrush. Partly because it is out in the open, but also the stance and the irregular patterning.
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The tadpoles are continuing to develop well. The newts are leaving them alone; and more have hatched, this time nearer to the surface of the pond.
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Oh, and a wood mouse has turned up in the garden. It's a while since I've seen any and they haven't yet discovered the bird feeders this year.
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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D, The birds were taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens, the landscape with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM lens, and the tadpoles and mouse 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":[980,1003,54,1004,278],"tags":[51,120,1167,55,326],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-landscape-2","category-mouse","category-south-downs-national-park-landscape-2","category-tadpole","tag-blackbird","tag-pied-wagtail","tag-tadpole","tag-thrush","tag-wood-mouse","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