{"id":1903,"date":"2011-04-12T23:04:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T22:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1903"},"modified":"2013-11-09T16:30:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T16:30:13","slug":"a-mark-twain-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-mark-twain-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mark Twain Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->There are various versions of the famous quote by Mark Twain on hearing of the publication of his obituary, but generally it is given as &quot;The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated&quot;. And so it is for my trio of ducklings. I don&#39;t know where they&#39;ve been hiding, but I&#39;m delighted to report that they were out and about at lunchtime today.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/duckling_1204114514.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/duckling_1204114530.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I also saw two swallows (still not really a summer, though). They were perched on a telephone wire at the rear of Falmer Church. Here&#39;s one of them.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/swallow_1204114665.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day I&#39;d taken a similar shot of a goldfinch (different location, out by the fields), but in much better light.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/goldfinch_1204114478.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I also saw a rabbit, but unfortunately it seems that myxomatosis is once again affecting the local population. It doesn&#39;t affect all of them, but it&#39;s an ugly and painful disease that is sadly endemic among the rabbit population. Hopefully it will be a relatively limited outbreak, but it can decimate their numbers. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/rabbit_myx_1204114506.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>My final photo for today is a horse. Also out by the farmland fields I visit in the morning.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/horse_1204114508.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":[980,167],"tags":[1176,211,1155,1130,1165],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-horse","tag-duckling","tag-goldfinch","tag-horse","tag-rabbit","tag-swallow","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903","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=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}