{"id":1997,"date":"2011-07-23T00:07:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T23:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1997"},"modified":"2013-11-09T01:10:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T01:10:07","slug":"kestrel-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/kestrel-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Kestrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Sometimes you don&#39;t get what you&#39;re after, but you do get something that you want. So it was today when I went in search of buzzards. They were there, but kept a good distance. I did get some shots, but just as I was heading away from the fields a kestrel came into view. A large female; and she flew in close.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kestrel_2207116217.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kestrel_2207116225.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kestrel_2207116230.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m still having no luck with the foxes at home, but the insects are keeping me occupied. The first one was busy working alongside all the bees; but this isn&#39;t a bee. It&#39;s a wasp.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/wasp_2207116287.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Now this is a bee.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bee_2207116291.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: kestrel shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The wasp and bee 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":[993,990,991],"tags":[1145,1152,312],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bee-insects-2","category-bird-of-prey","category-insects-2","tag-bee","tag-kestrel","tag-wasp","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","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=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}