{"id":1908,"date":"2011-04-18T00:04:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T23:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1908"},"modified":"2013-11-09T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T16:24:09","slug":"bugs-butterflies-birds-and-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/bugs-butterflies-birds-and-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bugs Butterflies Birds and Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Sunshine! And time in the garden, which is coming nicely into bloom and is alive with insect life. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/yellow_flowers_1704115563.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Alyssum<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We have shield bugs, and will soon have more \ud83d\ude09<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sloe_shield_bug_1704115515.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Sloe shield bugs mating<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m still trying to identify this orange and black bug. Update: it&#39;s a Rhopalid Bug <i>Corizus hyoscyami<\/i>. (Thanks Jason!)<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/beetle_orange_black_1704115525.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>A pair of whites (butterflies) were mating. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/white_butterfly_mating_1704115480.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The bees are busy&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/bee_1704115570.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Later I popped down to the local pond to see what was happening. This orange-tip butterfly was in the nearby hedgerow.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/orange_tip_butterfly_1704115586.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And then there were the birds. Collared doves to be precise.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/collared_dove_1704115629.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And ducks&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/duck_1704115678.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/duck_1704115704.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And finally, babies. Not ducklings (though they were there), but the first of the moorhen chicks. The mother was still incubating the nest, but I saw three little ones (the nest had 7 eggs) which looked very new to the world. These photos were taken through a mass of twigs. I was careful not to disturb mother or young. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/moorhen_chick_1704115746.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/moorhen_chick_1704115771.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 bird shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Bugs and butterflies taken with the EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM 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":[991],"tags":[645,1144,1177,276,1160,1172],"class_list":["post-1908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insects-2","tag-bug","tag-butterfly","tag-chick","tag-collared-dove","tag-duck","tag-moorhen","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908","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=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}