{"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<p><!--more-->The current good weather is holding, at least for a few days more. This is where I had lunch.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/falmer_2403110194.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s a good time of year for bird watching. They&#39;re busy feeding themselves are the privations of winter, and there&#39;s plenty for them to choose from. It&#39;s not, however, such a good time of year for the humble worm.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/blackbird_2403110065.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/blackbird_2403110071.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>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. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pwt_2403110124.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mistle_thrush_2403110137.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mistle_thrush_2403110141.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tadpole_2403110249.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and a wood mouse has turned up in the garden. It&#39;s a while since I&#39;ve seen any and they haven&#39;t yet discovered the bird feeders this year.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/woodmouse_2403110032.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, 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","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=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}