{"id":19869,"date":"2014-02-03T22:29:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T22:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=19869"},"modified":"2014-02-03T22:29:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T22:29:36","slug":"greylag-geese-mating-photo-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/greylag-geese-mating-photo-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Greylag Geese Mating (photo special)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a little brighter this morning when I arrived at Falmer. Partly due to some improved weather, and of course dawn being just a few minutes earlier as each day passes. The Muscovy ducks were there, and at the far end of the pond the greylag geese were sitting calmly on the water. <\/p>\n

The peace was shattered by a pair of greylags making a short and noisy flight to the centre of the pond, followed closely by a gaggle of loudly hooting geese. It looked like a fight, but this was the rather more serious business of mating. These are a few highlights from a much lengthier sequence.<\/p>\n

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The afternoon brought more sunshine (!) and some typical scenes of sheep grazing on the Downs.<\/p>\n

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Plus my first photo this year of a green woodpecker.<\/p>\n

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Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a little brighter this morning when I arrived at Falmer. Partly due to some improved weather, and of course dawn being just a few minutes earlier as each day passes. The Muscovy ducks were there, and at the far end of the pond the greylag geese were sitting calmly on the water. The […]<\/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":[15,1041,989],"tags":[222,814,1133,135],"class_list":["post-19869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behaviour","category-sheep-wildlife","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-green-woodpecker","tag-greylag-geese","tag-mating","tag-sheep","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