{"id":1917,"date":"2011-04-26T22:04:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T21:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1917"},"modified":"2013-11-09T16:07:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T16:07:22","slug":"early-morning-and-mr-mrs-greylag-get-the-kids-safely-across-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/early-morning-and-mr-mrs-greylag-get-the-kids-safely-across-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning and Mr &#038; Mrs Greylag get the kids safely across the road&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This one had me baffled. I&#39;ve heard about (and struggled against) the school run, but I wasn&#39;t expecting our local greylags to be on hand to show how it should be done. Get all the kids gathered together. Form a crocodile. One adult at each end, and then &#8211; when the road is clear &#8211; walk quickly across the road to the safety of the other side. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/goslings_2604118447_b.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Add in a light breakfast, strictly organic, and the kids are set up for the day.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/goslings_2604118453.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>In the nearby field, the young rabbits are out playing in the morning sunshine.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/rabbits_2604118461.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And a lone sandpiper stands watch by the water&#39;s edge.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sandpiper_2604118497.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Close to the bank, the young moorhens are feeling a little bolder.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/moorhen_chick_2604118592.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>They even venture out for a little swim.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/moorhen_chick_2604118616.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The ducklings are their cheerful little selves, perhaps sharing a joke with the seagull overhead that chose to use me for target practice and scored a bullseye! Messy :yuck:<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/duckling_2604118543.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And lurking in a quiet corner, still as a rock and as inscrutable, the terrapin sits and waits. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/terrapin_2604118514.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 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":[638,989],"tags":[1176,340,679,714,650,1189],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrapin","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-duckling","tag-gosling","tag-greylag","tag-moorhen-chick","tag-sandpiper","tag-terrapin","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","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=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}