{"id":1924,"date":"2011-05-03T23:05:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T22:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1924"},"modified":"2013-11-09T15:47:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T15:47:15","slug":"back-at-the-pond-and-a-graveyard-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/back-at-the-pond-and-a-graveyard-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Back at the Pond and a Graveyard Surprise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I went in search of fluffiness today, and I wasn&#39;t disappointed. The moorhens were staying out of sight, but the goslings were up early and I caught them on their daily constitutional as they wended their way to the water&#39;s edge.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/geese_0305119986.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/gosling_0305119998.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Close by, another young family was waking up.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/duckling_0305119999_109.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/duckling_0305119999_106.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>At lunchtime the goslings were still enjoy the warm sunshine, the gulls were gathering in the middle of the pond, and moorhens were scrapping as only they can. I took plenty of photos but there was one surprise waiting for me. On the opposite side of the pond to the church is a second graveyard. It&#39;s very pretty and well-maintained, and dappled sunlight reaches down through the leafy canopy. As I was reaching that side of the pond I heard a quiet calling.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/gosling_0305119999_161.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>No it wasn&#39;t a gosling, though that one seems to be listening. And it was nothing spooky.  As I emerged from the trees I came across a greater spotted woodpecker, low on the trunk of one of the boundary conifers, busy searching for insects.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/gsw_0305119999_187.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The camera was set for bright sunshine, so it took me a few moments (and several blurred shots) before I adjusted things properly (or at least sufficiently to get a usable shutter speed). By the time I&#39;d tweaked the ISO, changed the exposure compensation and realigned myself, the woodpecker had crept round almost to the far side of the tree. Almost, but not quite.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/gsw_0305119999_195.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/gsw_0305119999_197.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/gsw_0305119999_199.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Now I only need to track down the green woodpecker which also inhabits that small piece of woodland!<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":[980,989],"tags":[1176,340,1185],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-duckling","tag-gosling","tag-greater-spotted-woodpecker","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","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=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}