{"id":1898,"date":"2011-04-07T23:04:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T22:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1898"},"modified":"2013-11-09T16:37:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T16:37:55","slug":"firsts-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/firsts-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Firsts of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

No ducklings in the post today. Instead I've got a few shots of first sightings of the year. I'll begin with this blackcap. A very pretty little bird and one of which I have relatively few photos. It's a small bird and blends perfectly with the woodland background. I struggled to keep track of this one as it flitted between branches, but a couple of times it paused.
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I also saw a chiffchaff early morning. Not strictly a first of the year, but certainly the first decent photos of the year. And for once it was singing, so I know that this isn't a willow warbler.
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The third 'first' of the day had to wait until this evening. I was out in the garden as the sun was coming down when a lone bird flew directly overhead. These are grabbed shots, and certainly not the best angle but I'm reasonably confident that this is a hobby. I'm basing the identification on the vertical streaks on the body and that it just didn't look bulky enough for a peregrine (but I'm willing to be corrected).
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I'm still hopeful for one more first (of the year), but that depends on whether or not I actually see one of the badgers… you never know!
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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":[990,980],"tags":[621,183,434],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","tag-blackcap","tag-chiffchaff","tag-hobby","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