{"id":1922,"date":"2011-05-02T00:05:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1922"},"modified":"2013-11-09T15:52:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T15:52:55","slug":"day-and-night-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/day-and-night-in-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Day and Night in the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

More photos from the garden, which during the warmer part of the day is a constant flicker of butterflies and damselflies.
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Up in the trees the greenfinches and starlings gather, the latter busy catching grubs to take back to their young.
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Meanwhile hidden among the elder at the rear of the garden, a pair of green shield bugs are mating.
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Tonight brought more activity, but the highlight was finding a toad relaxing in the pond. They are regulars, but they stay well hidden and this is the first time I've seen one this year.
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And very briefly, a fox. Shutterbug wandered through the garden late this evening, barely pausing as he disappeared under the fence behind the shrubs in the top corner. Good to see him around… it's been a couple of weeks since his last observed visit.<\/p>\n

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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D. The first shot was taken with the EF 200mm f\/2.8L II USM lens. The two bird photos were taken with the EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens. The rest were all 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":[980,4,991,87],"tags":[1144,1170,1128,89,452,34,1150],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-insects-2","category-toad","tag-butterfly","tag-damselfly","tag-fox","tag-greenfinch","tag-shield-bug","tag-starling","tag-toad","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