{"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

Sunshine! And time in the garden, which is coming nicely into bloom and is alive with insect life.
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We have shield bugs, and will soon have more \ud83d\ude09
<\/span> Sloe shield bugs mating<\/span><\/p>\n

I'm still trying to identify this orange and black bug. Update: it's a Rhopalid Bug Corizus hyoscyami<\/i>. (Thanks Jason!)
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A pair of whites (butterflies) were mating.
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The bees are busy…
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Later I popped down to the local pond to see what was happening. This orange-tip butterfly was in the nearby hedgerow.
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And then there were the birds. Collared doves to be precise.
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And ducks…
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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.
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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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t