{"id":1912,"date":"2011-04-21T23:04:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T22:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1912"},"modified":"2013-11-09T16:17:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T16:17:23","slug":"more-surprises-at-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/more-surprises-at-the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"More Surprises at the Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The glorious unseasonally warm weather continues, and life at the pond is hotting up. In the adjacent fields the young rabbits enjoy the morning sunshine.
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The moorhen is still mothering her chicks.
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And really, only a mother could love them. They are such strange little things.
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The goslings are thriving under a watchful parental eye.
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But all is not calm. Out in the middle of the pond the mallard males are engaging in the duck equivalent of rutting.
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And in the shallows, perilously close to the moorhen nests, the fish are jumping.
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The pond had one further surprise today, an introduced species that is an increasingly common sight on British waterways. It's nonetheless still somewhat disconcerting to seem them in the wild. A terrapin. :ninja:
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I can't end tonight's entry without one more photo of a gosling. Too cute!
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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":[8,638,989],"tags":[1177,1160,172,340,679,1172,1130,1189],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rabbit","category-terrapin","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-chick","tag-duck","tag-fish","tag-gosling","tag-greylag","tag-moorhen","tag-rabbit","tag-terrapin","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