{"id":1948,"date":"2011-05-31T23:05:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T22:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1948"},"modified":"2013-11-09T14:58:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T14:58:39","slug":"the-eat-all-you-want-restaurant-for-sparrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/the-eat-all-you-want-restaurant-for-sparrows\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Eat All You Want&#8221; restaurant for sparrows&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#39;ve taken plenty of photos recently of birds swooping and swirling in the pursuit of insects. Today I present a slightly different approach. The lazy bird&#39;s guide to insect catching. The trick is to let someone else do all the work. :bug:<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s the star of the show, a sparrow. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/sparrow_3105114735.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And  here&#39;s how he did it.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/sparrow_3105114750.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/sparrow_3105114757.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>That certainly expends rather less energy than doing this&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/swallow_3105114721.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And it avoids running foul of rather more lethal species such as this&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/sparrowhawk_3105114875.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/sparrowhawk_3105114879.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/sparrowhawk_3105114889.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 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":[990,980],"tags":[264,1154,1165],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","tag-sparrow","tag-sparrowhawk","tag-swallow","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","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=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}