{"id":1896,"date":"2011-04-05T23:04:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T22:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1896"},"modified":"2013-11-09T16:40:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T16:40:55","slug":"yet-more-duckings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/yet-more-duckings\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet more ducklings&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I promise I am looking for other subjects, but this morning it was dull and overcast and although I did stay away from the pond and headed for the fields I got little worth posting. My best sighting was a red legged partridge flying across an open field. I was some distance away and the light was poor, but it is the first time I&#39;ve caught one of these in flight so it has some scarcity value.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/red_legged_partridge_0504112504.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>One of the local buzzards was scrapping with a crow (the crows usually win these encounters through sheer persistence).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/buzzard_crow_0504112515.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>It was still dull at lunchtime, and cold. But the pond is nearby so I did head over there. I am now fairly sure that the seven original ducklings have been reduced the just three. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/duckling_0504112628.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>They are cute though \ud83d\ude09<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/duckling_0504112572.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/duckling_0504112599.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>That&#39;s enough for one night, but there was a statistical oddity in the garden last night. Foxes have always been the dominant animal on the trail cam. We get cats, hedgehogs (they can have a high trigger count), foxes (who get the most sightings nightly) and occasional badgers. Last night it was quiet (only 12 clips in total), but with three badger sightings they topped the table for the first time. The rest were made up with empty clips (i.e. triggered but nothing passed in front of the camera), a couple each of hedgehogs, cats and foxes. It will be interesting to see what tonight brings. The hedgehogs are currently in the lead but I expect that to change as the night wears on.<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],"tags":[179,44,1176,710],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-buzzard","tag-crow","tag-duckling","tag-red-legged-partridge","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","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=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}