{"id":1902,"date":"2011-04-11T23:04:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T22:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1902"},"modified":"2013-11-09T16:31:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T16:31:28","slug":"field-birds-and-flying-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/field-birds-and-flying-ducks\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Birds and Flying Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This selection of photos is drawn from yesterday (Sunday) out on the downs, and today (Monday) at Falmer Pond.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday I&#39;d gone in search of raptors. This is hardly surprising given the previous day&#39;s success, but in fact there were none (apart from a lone kestrel perched on a barren tree) to be seen.  There was plenty else though. The pheasants were calling across the hillsides, butterflies were skipping along the undergrowth, and a stonechat was singing loudly from a small thicket along the edge of the field. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/stonechat_1004114195.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>He was a busy little bird, flitting between perches as I tracked along the path.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/stonechat_1004114188.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Busy, and bold.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/stonechat_1004114258.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I sat for a while by a small dew pond down in the valley. It was unseasonably warm yesterday, and a pair of male mallards were keeping cool.<span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ducks_1004114093.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Today I was back at Falmer Pond. No ducklings, and the moorhen chicks are yet to hatch. Gulls were plentiful, but the ducks gave the best display as a group of four circled the pond.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ducks_flight_1104114458.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/dukcs_flight_1104114459.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/dukcs_flight_1104114464.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 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":[150,137],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-ducks","tag-stonechat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902","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=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}