{"id":1981,"date":"2011-07-06T23:07:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T22:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1981"},"modified":"2013-11-09T12:28:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T12:28:14","slug":"green-woodpecker-herring-gulls-and-a-fox-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/green-woodpecker-herring-gulls-and-a-fox-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Woodpecker, Herring Gulls, and a Fox Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

A quiet day, with some sunshine and several downpours. It was moderately light this morning, which is when I spotted this fine woodpecker. He flew across the local pond, and settled on a telegraph pole just behind Falmer Church. The background is the 13th century barn<\/a> mentioned in a previous post.
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The young herring gulls are doing well, and putting on weight. That's as it should be since they are but a stone's throw from here:
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That's the logo of our local football (soccer) team, Brighton & Hove Albion. Their new stadium (which is a matter of yards from where I work) opens in a couple of weeks. Meanwhile it's nice and quiet for the chicks.
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On the home front, more dragonflies have appeared. This one was still at the edge of the pond early this evening.
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And soon after, Shutterbug paid one of his occasional visits. He's still looking quite skinny (which I'm putting down to a heavy moult), but his brush which had looked exceedingly tatty of late is beginning to recover. He should look fine by the autumn.
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Camera note: first five shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The final two shots 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":[980,77,4],"tags":[748,1128,222,737],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-dragonfly","category-foxes","tag-common-darter-dragonfly","tag-fox","tag-green-woodpecker","tag-herring-gull-chick","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