{"id":1909,"date":"2011-04-18T23:04:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T22:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1909"},"modified":"2013-11-09T16:22:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T16:22:22","slug":"a-bit-of-a-mixed-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-bit-of-a-mixed-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of a Mixed Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

No great theme or outstanding moment today, just a selection of photos from the garden and the fields. I'll start with this shot of a crow. It's one of the garden crows, captured just after taking off from our roof.
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Next is a peacock butterfly, seen flitting around along the edge of some hedgerow.
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The two smaller birds of the day were the wheatears and whitethroats. The wheatears were picking their way across open meadow in small flocks. They're relatively bold birds which means that a slow approach sometimes works, but not always. This is one of the closer shots I managed (it's also cropped).
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I think the whitethroat had a nest nearby, and from the noise coming from the centre of some dense bushes I think there must have been some hungry mouths to feed. I managed this shot while it was scouting the area. He'd perch there for a few moments, and dart to a neighbouring tree, and then circle back to the nest site. Repeatedly.
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Back in the garden at the end of the day I took a few shots of the newts. They're active and dominant in the pond (no sign of the frogs and I think the tadpoles must be hiding near the bottom (under the leaf matter).
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Finally, a fox. A brief visit tonight. He just walked through the garden, clearly with a purpose (though that's his to know and he gave no clues).
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I'll try to see the moorhen chicks tomorrow, so hopefully more shots of them tomorrow night.
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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D. The wheatear, whitethroat and butterfly were taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The crow was taken with the EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens. The newt and fox were taken with the EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO IS lens. Phew! <\/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":[980,4,1026],"tags":[44,1128,114,254,463,568],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-newt-amphibians-2","tag-crow","tag-fox","tag-newt","tag-peacock-butterfly","tag-wheatear","tag-whitethroat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","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=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}