{"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<p><!--more-->More photos from the garden, which during the warmer part of the day is a constant flicker of butterflies and damselflies.  <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/damselfly_0105119544.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Up in the trees the greenfinches and starlings gather, the latter busy catching grubs to take back to their young.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/greenfinch_0105119610.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/starling_0105119677.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile hidden among the elder at the rear of the garden, a pair of green shield bugs are mating.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/shield_bug_mating_01051198081.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>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&#39;ve seen one this year.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/toad_0105119858.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>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&#8230; it&#39;s been a couple of weeks since his last observed visit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fox_young_male_0105119865.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9695\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fox_young_male_0105119865-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"fox\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fox_young_male_0105119865-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fox_young_male_0105119865-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fox_young_male_0105119865.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fox_young_male_0105119869.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. 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","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=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}