{"id":1960,"date":"2011-06-13T23:06:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T22:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1960"},"modified":"2013-11-09T14:41:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T14:41:54","slug":"woods-mill-sussex-kestrel-chicks-and-other-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/woods-mill-sussex-kestrel-chicks-and-other-creatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Woods Mill, Sussex &#8211; Kestrel chicks and other creatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I had time to get over to Woods Mill nature reserve today. It&#39;s the headquarters of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sussexwt.org.uk\/index.htm?id=default\" target=\"_blank\">Sussex Wildlife Trust<\/a> and is where I got a series of shots of <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2009\/06\/15\/kestrel-chicks-picture-special\" target=\"_blank\">kestrel chicks<\/a> a couple of years ago. A report of the SWT site told me it was time for a return visit.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#39;t take long for an adult kestrel to appear and deposit a vole (?) for the hungry young mouths.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/kestrel_chicks_1306117365.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/kestrel_chicks_1306117377.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/kestrel_1306117380.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Feeding over, I moved around the edge of the field for a different view.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/kestrel_1306117406.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The red cables you can see just inside the nest box are part of a webcam the Trust has installed. Some excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sussexwt.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/06\/springwatch-in-sussex-kestrel-diary-3\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SussexWildlifeTrust+%28Wild+Comment%29&amp;utm_content=FeedBurner\" target=\"_blank\">video of the young kestrels<\/a> from inside the box can be seen on their blog.<\/p>\n<p>I stuck around the area of the nest for about an hour, but it seems the adults were taking a relaxed view of feeding, and there was little further activity to see. So I headed around to the lake, where a heron was lurking in the reeds.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/heron_1306117434.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/heron_1306117429.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There were plenty of small birds about, including whitethroats and fledgling tits (blue and great).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/whitethroat_1306117482.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blue_tit_fledgling_1306117478.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/great_tit_fledgling_1306117519.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I also added a meadow brown butterfly to this year&#39;s sightings.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/meadow_brown_butterfly_1306117496.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And there were clouds of damselflies&#8230; and lots of mating activity.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/damselfly_mating_1306117423.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>My favourite though was a lone beautiful demoiselle damselfly (female), perched on a leaf fairly late in the day. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/beautiful_demoiselle_1306117501.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/beautiful_demoiselle_1306117510.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Considering that I left the house in thick fog, it turned out to be a fine afternoon!<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, except the demoiselles which were taken with the EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM 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":[990,992,309,989],"tags":[627,45,1170,57,1179,1152,568,426],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-butterfly-insects-2","category-damselfly","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-beautiful-demoiselle","tag-blue-tit","tag-damselfly","tag-great-tit","tag-heron","tag-kestrel","tag-whitethroat","tag-woods-mill","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","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=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}