{"id":1904,"date":"2011-04-13T23:04:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T22:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1904"},"modified":"2013-11-09T16:28:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T16:28:32","slug":"more-local-wildlife-and-a-very-special-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/more-local-wildlife-and-a-very-special-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"More local wildlife, and a very special treat&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The weather has cooled considerably over the past few days. The light was odd. Not good (dull enough to force me up to ISO 800), but not that washed out light that kills all the colour. I visited the pond in the morning and, yes, the ducklings are still there and still fine.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ducklings_1304114749.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The moorhens are still nest-sitting, and out in an adjacent field a pair of ducks were lurking in the long grass, along with a rabbit.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ducks_rabbit_1304114706.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The smaller birds were noisy, and a thrush was looking unduly glum. Clearly not the early bird (that has to have been a blackbird).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/thrush_daffodil_1304114732.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>At lunchtime I headed to the fields. The pheasants and partridges were mingling with the sheep. This is a red-legged partridge, taken from too far away and again in less than ideal light.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/red_legged_partridge_1304114779.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Further along the footpath the skylarks were singing brightly. I caught this one as it spiralled down to earth. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/skylark_1304114803.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As for the garden, I was granted a very special treat this evening&#8230; a badger. It was small for a badger and very shy,  tolerating my presence only long enough for a single photo.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/badger_1304114842.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, except the badger which was photographed with the EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO 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":[994,980,8],"tags":[160,1160,249,524,1130,316],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badger-wildlife","category-birds-2","category-rabbit","tag-badger-2","tag-duck","tag-ducklings","tag-partridge","tag-rabbit","tag-skylark","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","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=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}