{"id":1911,"date":"2011-04-20T22:04:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T21:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1911"},"modified":"2013-11-09T16:19:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T16:19:01","slug":"moorhen-chicks-greylag-goslings-a-duckling-and-a-very-pretty-yellowhammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/moorhen-chicks-greylag-goslings-a-duckling-and-a-very-pretty-yellowhammer\/","title":{"rendered":"Moorhen Chicks, Greylag Goslings, a Duckling and a very pretty Yellowhammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Another beautiful day in Sussex, and it began out in the local fields. The sheep were grazing, but it was the flash of yellowhammers that caught my eye as they perched among the spring blossom.
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But this post isn't about field birds, or about adult birds, it's about the young of the flock. The moorhens are interesting. The adult has been building a new nest about 10 yards along the bank from the hatching nest. A two-home family (the chicks were still using the old one). She started it yesterday, and by this morning it was more or less complete.
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Building work done, she had time to look after her brood.
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I hadn't seen the ducklings for a while, but they were around today and they've grown. They almost look like little ducks now. Still cute though.
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The big surprise though was an entirely new family of youngsters on the pond. Greylag goslings \ud83d\ude00
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This post is rapidly getting out of hand, so before I add too many more photos I think I had best call it a night. After all, there's more than an outside chance that I'll get more pictures tomorrow. I'll close with one more moorhen chick, getting adventurous!
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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":[980,989],"tags":[1176,340,679,714,471],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-duckling","tag-gosling","tag-greylag","tag-moorhen-chick","tag-yellowhammer","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","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=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}