{"id":1889,"date":"2011-03-29T23:03:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T22:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1889"},"modified":"2013-11-09T16:51:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T16:51:13","slug":"around-the-churchyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/around-the-churchyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the Churchyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The pond I often visit at lunchtimes is set alongside a picturesque church. The current building dates to 1817 though a church has been in the village since the 11th century. These shots were taken through the trees on the far side of the village pond. I&#39;ll have to go back with a wide angle lens one day soon.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/falmer_church_2903111248.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/falmer_church_2903111250.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There were several chaffinches and wagtails hopping between (and on) the weathered gravestones in the churchyard, and it was the wagtails which caught the camera.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pwt_2903111111.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pwt_2903111139.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pwt_2903111166.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pwt_2903111175.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I caught a glimpse of a sparrowhawk which I occasionally see there, but the other photographic target was hidden away at the top of one of the waterside trees. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/gsw_2903111203.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>It was difficult to get much closer, so the rest of these are hefty crops, but a great spotted woodpecker is always worth the effort. This is a male by the way, distinguished by his red neck-scarf (it goes well with his waistcoat \ud83d\ude09 ).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/gsw_2903111234.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/gsw_2903111217.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/gsw_2903111224.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There was one more surprise left in store (or to be exact, in the car park of the village store), an old friend who I haven&#39;t seen for a while. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/peahen_2903111254.jpg' \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/peahen_2903111256.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/>Her <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2010\/05\/07\/why-did-the-peahen-sit-on-the-car\" target=\"_blank\">attraction to cars<\/a> has clearly not diminished.<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.<\/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],"tags":[707,198,439,120],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-landscape-2","tag-falmer-church","tag-great-spotted-woodpecker","tag-peahen","tag-pied-wagtail","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","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=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}