{"id":1886,"date":"2011-03-27T00:03:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T00:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1886"},"modified":"2013-11-09T17:12:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T17:12:36","slug":"in-and-around-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/in-and-around-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"In and Around the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Today&#39;s photos were all taken in and around the garden, which I suppose proves the point that there is often as much to see right where you are as there is in more exotic (or distant) locations. Sure, many of these are very common sightings, but I did manage an insect &#39;first&#39; and a second-ever sighting of our smallest bird.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ll start with a seasonal shot&#8230; a small white butterfly flitting around the garden this morning.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/small_white_butterfly_2603110488.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The hundreds of ladybirds I spotted last week have migrated! From the back garden to the front garden. It took me a while to find them.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ladybirds_2603110521.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Now for something less common. It&#39;s the first time I&#39;ve seen one of these, and going by its name it must have wandered in from nearby. It&#39;s a brassica bug, presumably named because it feeds on brassicas (cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli).  <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/brassica_bug_2603110510.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The bees are beginning to get busy. This one was resting against a window.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bee_2603110528.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of birds as well. At various times I spotted greenfinches, chaffinches and goldfinches in the trees at the back of the house. There were the usual pigeons (wood and feral varieties) and collared doves, crows (we have a pair nesting). And I mustn&#39;t forget the gulls. But the prize &#39;spot&#39; was of the tiniest bird we have (joint holder of the title, to be fair). Strictly speaking it wasn&#39;t in our garden, though the tree does more or less overhang the boundary. I was about 30 feet away, which didn&#39;t help, and the shade made things more difficult. But here it is&#8230; a tiny bundle of feathers, a goldcrest.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/goldcrest_2603110574.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/goldcrest_2603110575.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>That just leaves two more of today&#39;s visitors, seen tonight. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/hedgehog_2603110611.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fox_young_male_2603110590.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I might well stay at home again tomorrow. I wouldn&#39;t want to miss anything \ud83d\ude00<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. I used the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens for the butterfly and goldcrest. The rest were all 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":[980,4,282,991],"tags":[1145,645,1144,1128,476,1168,1147],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-hedgehog","category-insects-2","tag-bee","tag-bug","tag-butterfly","tag-fox","tag-goldcrest","tag-hedgehog","tag-ladybird","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","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=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}