{"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 “Eat All You Want” restaurant for sparrows…"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

I'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's guide to insect catching. The trick is to let someone else do all the work. :bug:<\/p>\n

Here's the star of the show, a sparrow.
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And here's how he did it.
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That certainly expends rather less energy than doing this…
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And it avoids running foul of rather more lethal species such as this…
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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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t