{"id":1920,"date":"2011-04-30T00:04:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T23:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1920"},"modified":"2013-11-09T16:02:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T16:02:05","slug":"a-change-of-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-change-of-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"A Change of Pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A change of pace today, and a mix of shots taken in the garden and out at Castle Hill (a local nature reserve which sits just inside the South Downs National Park). I&#39;ll start with the only bird shot in this entry, a meadow pipit perched on gorse (and for once, perhaps foolishly) I feel confident about the identification. This was taken at Castle Hill.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/meadow_pipit_2904119096.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I had several sighting of buzzards, kestrels and (possibly) a peregrine, but none close enough to produce any useful images. On the other hand I did see plenty of butterflies, including two which I don&#39;t think I&#39;ve featured previously. Both are small, and indeed include &#39;small&#39; in their common names. First up is the small heath butterfly, which looks a little like a meadow brown, but is smaller and has a smudged greenish-brown lower wing.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/small_heath_butterfly_2904119252.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The second is a more colourful butterfly, and somewhat more distinctive. It&#39;s a small copper, and there were several flitting over the meadow.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/small_copper_butterfly_2904119250.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/small_copper_butterfly_2904119265.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I also saw a day-flying moth which I have provisionally identified as a muslin ermine (a completely new on on me). Assuming the identification is correct, it&#39;s a female (due to the colour and that it was day-flying. The males are brownish in colour and only come out at night).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/pale_moth_sp_2904119103.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The final shot from Castle Hill is of a small colony of rabbits, included simply because I&#39;ve never managed a dozen mammals in a single photo.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/rabbits_2904119171.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The final pictures are from the garden. The first is another new one for me, provisionally identified as a &#39;picture wing fly&#39;. There are nearly 40 different varieties of these. It&#39;s a pretty and tiny little thing.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/small_fly_sp_2904119066.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>To close some shots of babies, but these aren&#39;t the fluffy ones of late. I think they&#39;re cute though. And they are exceedingly small, little more than tiny mobile flecks. These are spiderlings of the common garden spider  <i>(Araneus diadematus)<\/i>. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/spiderlings_2904119307.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/spiderlings_2904119314.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 the Castle Hill shots were taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The garden photos were taken with the EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM 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":[980,991,1003,1004,1009],"tags":[1144,259,1162,723,724,721,722,725],"class_list":["post-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-insects-2","category-landscape-2","category-south-downs-national-park-landscape-2","category-spiders-2","tag-butterfly","tag-meadow-pipit","tag-moth","tag-muslin-ermine","tag-picture-wing-fly","tag-small-copper","tag-small-heath","tag-spiderling","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920","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=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}