{"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 & Mrs Greylag get the kids safely across the road…"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

This one had me baffled. I've heard about (and struggled against) the school run, but I wasn'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 – when the road is clear – walk quickly across the road to the safety of the other side.
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Add in a light breakfast, strictly organic, and the kids are set up for the day.
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In the nearby field, the young rabbits are out playing in the morning sunshine.
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And a lone sandpiper stands watch by the water's edge.
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Close to the bank, the young moorhens are feeling a little bolder.
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They even venture out for a little swim.
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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:
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And lurking in a quiet corner, still as a rock and as inscrutable, the terrapin sits and waits.
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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":[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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t