{"id":1941,"date":"2011-05-23T23:05:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T22:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1941"},"modified":"2013-11-09T15:14:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T15:14:23","slug":"larking-around-and-a-distant-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/larking-around-and-a-distant-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Larking around&#8230; and a distant fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Different places and different days means different dominant species. I&#39;m sure there are reasons for  the sometimes rapid changes, though I&#39;m far from certain as to what they are. Today, for example, the previously dominant whitethroats were much less active (maybe the young have fledged, which would reduce feeding activity), the kestrels were almost nowhere to be seen (too windy, or better hunting elsewhere?). The corvids were active (crows, magpies and jackdaws), but it was a much smaller bird that was dominant. The skylarks dusted the meadow as they rested between soaring and singing.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/skylark_2305113582.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/skylark_2305113568.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/skylark_2305113584.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/skylark_2305113651.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There was one other sighting that is worth posting. A lone fox was passing through the valley. It seemed purposeful, but wasn&#39;t actively hunting (I saw remarkably few rabbits either, as it happens). It was a  brief sighting, but it&#39;s always a pleasure to see foxes out in their natural habitat. The first shot is uncropped.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fox_sheepcote_2305113669.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fox_sheepcote_2305113670.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fox_sheepcote_2305113675.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Finally, a short news report from acouple fo days ago of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-13507026\" target=\"_blank\">big cat sighting on the Sussex\/Hampshire<\/a> borders. This one even has video evidence (of a sort).<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":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,4],"tags":[1128,316],"class_list":["post-1941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","tag-fox","tag-skylark","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}