{"id":1932,"date":"2011-05-12T23:05:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T22:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1932"},"modified":"2013-11-09T15:27:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T15:27:09","slug":"a-new-family-of-goslings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-new-family-of-goslings\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Family of Goslings"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It&#39;s back to the normal routine, and so I stopped off at Falmer Pond early this morning. The ducks were still mainly asleep, and the geese were grazing idly on the grassy bank. Overhead, swifts and house martins danced across the sky. And then a new family appeared, stepping smartly over the grass and heading for the water. Yes, a second clutch of greylag goslings, this time numbering seven (there are six in the first clutch).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/goslings_1205111631.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/goslings_1205111677.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/goslings_1205111666.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/goslings_1205111690.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Just along from the new group, the earlier goslings were also out and about  but looking altogether more grown up.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/goslings_1205111709.jpg' \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The young moorhens are increasingly bold which means that they are venturing out into open ground for the first time. They&#39;ve grown a lot, but still have the unfortunate look of a badly-finished rag doll.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/moorhen_chick_1205111782.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The final shot from the pond is a blue tit. I don&#39;t feature these feisty little birds nearly enough, but this one was crying out to be noticed.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/blue_tit_1205111813.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Back home, Tuesday night&#39;s brief fox encounter with Shutterbug is turning into a mini-glut. He was back again tonight, this time prowling around the borders. Once again he didn&#39;t stay long. But long enough.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fox_young_male_1205111850.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fox_young_male_1205111865.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 at the pond taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The fox was photographed with the EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO 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":[4,989],"tags":[45,1128,340,714],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-blue-tit","tag-fox","tag-gosling","tag-moorhen-chick","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","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=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}