{"id":1994,"date":"2011-07-19T23:07:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T22:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1994"},"modified":"2013-11-09T01:14:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T01:14:26","slug":"birds-and-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/birds-and-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds and Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Today was the first decent sunshine we&#39;ve had in days. To get the really good light I ought to be out at dawn, but I certainly wasn&#39;t going to complain and at around 8.00am it was perfectly adequate for my purposes. So I headed to the pond, to try out a few things. There&#39;s always something there to photograph, but I wasn&#39;t expecting quite such an interesting subject first thing in the morning. Not one woodpecker, but two. And one of them a fledgling \ud83d\ude42<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/gwp_fledgling_1907115474.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/gwp_fledgling_1907115477.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/gwp_1907115488.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Taking those photos got me to thinking about other shots among the gravestones. And sure enough another adult\/fledgling combination soon appeared.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/blackbird_1907115592.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/blackbird_1907115594.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As well as the blackbirds, a young blackcap was flitting around an apple tree that overhangs the churchyard.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/blackcap_1907115507.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The last two shots for today were taken at lunchtime. This time the subject is a very flappy duck.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/duck_1907115645.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/duck_1907115671.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":[980],"tags":[51,621,1160,222],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-blackbird","tag-blackcap","tag-duck","tag-green-woodpecker","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","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=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}