{"id":19446,"date":"2013-12-28T00:17:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T00:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=19446"},"modified":"2013-12-28T00:17:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T00:17:02","slug":"earthstar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/earthstar-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthstar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One familiar face in the garden, plus a surprise newcomer. <\/p>\n<p>I was checking out the back of the garden after the heavy wind and rain of the past few days and spotted a most unexpected visitor lurking in the corner of an area covered in bark chippings (so with something of a woodland feel to it). There were two of them sitting there, looking slightly the worse for wear after the storms: Earthstars. These shots are of the better preserved of the pair. Although not rare, these are the first ones I&#8217;ve seen in the garden and I&#8217;ve only seen examples in woodland on handful of occasions. More about them can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geastrum_triplex\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/earthstar_2712134089.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/earthstar_2712134089-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Earthstar\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/earthstar_2712134089-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/earthstar_2712134089-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/earthstar_2712134089.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/earthstar_2712134094.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/earthstar_2712134094-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Earthstar \" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/earthstar_2712134094-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/earthstar_2712134094-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/earthstar_2712134094.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>As for the familiar face, it&#8217;s fox-shaped and belongs to Pretty (who else?). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fox_pretty_2712134127.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fox_pretty_2712134127-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Fox\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fox_pretty_2712134127-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fox_pretty_2712134127-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fox_pretty_2712134127.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fox_pretty_2712134140.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fox_pretty_2712134140-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Fox\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fox_pretty_2712134140-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fox_pretty_2712134140-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fox_pretty_2712134140.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM lens.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One familiar face in the garden, plus a surprise newcomer. I was checking out the back of the garden after the heavy wind and rain of the past few days and spotted a most unexpected visitor lurking in the corner of an area covered in bark chippings (so with something of a woodland feel to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,349],"tags":[443,1128,1173],"class_list":["post-19446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-fungi","tag-earthstar","tag-fox","tag-fungi","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19446","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=19446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}